Chalchimitl (MH856r)

Chalchimitl (MH856r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Chalchimitl (literally, “Green Stone Arrow”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows an arrow (mitl) on an angle, with the point down toward the viewer’s lower left. The arrow has two barbs on its point and fletching at the top. In the middle of the arrow is a chalchihuitl (green stone or jade) bead on a short string.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

There was a Tetzcocan named Yicalchalchimitl born in 1517 and later named Juan Bautista Valerio de la Cruz (Diccionario Enciclopédico Mejicano, 1884, 186). It is difficult to say if the name should be translated literally. The bead does not appear to be tied onto the arrow.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

die^o chalchimitl

Gloss Normalization:

Diego Chalchimitl

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)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Feathers

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Rope, cord

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

diagonal or angled

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

outward (from inside out)

Keywords:

jades, piedras preciosas, flechas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

chalchihu(itl), green stone, jade, or a bead of the same, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chalchihuitl
mi(tl), arrow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Flecha con Jade

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 856r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=784&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).

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