Xaltemoc (MH781v)

Xaltemoc (MH781v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xaltemoc (perhaps “Sand Descended”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a bird’s eye view of a circle filled with dots that stand for sand (xalli). Coming off the top of this circle are four footprints, intending to show descent (the verb, temo, which is given in the preterit).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Various personal names end in -temoc (“descended”), including ones that feature shields (chimalli), feathers (ihuitl), arrows (tlacochin), and chalk (tizatl). One place name shows descent down a stepped pyramid structure.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

marcos xartemoc

Gloss Normalization: 

Marcos Xaltemoc

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
verb
preterit tense
visual movement
visual plural (multiples of objects)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Footprint(s), human
Gender (male)
Landscape Features
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bird's eye view
circle, circular or rounded
dotted, granular, textured
shimmer, vibrance, shine with warmth & movement
Keywords: 

arena, bajar, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

xal(li), sand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xalli
temo, to descend, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temo

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

La Sal Bajó

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 781v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=637&st=image.

Image Source, Rights: 

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).

Orthography: 
"r" for l
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Chimaltemoc (MH628v)

Ihuitl Temoc (Verg9v)

Tizatemoc (MH619v)

Temoayan (Mdz27r)