Chiantlan (MH878r)

Chiantlan (MH878r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the place name Chiantlan (perhaps “Among the Chia Seed Plants”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a building with two plants on the roof. These seem to be chian (chia seed) plants. The -tlan locative suffix (among or near) is not represented visually. The building provides a semantic locative, confirming that this is a place. The name pertains to a barrio (as seen in the contextualizing image).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The term chian or chiyantli is also sometimes spelled with an “e” in the place of the “a.” It was a food plant and it produced an oil which had various uses. It remains popular to this day. See an image of a chia plant in the California desert, below. Many chian glyphs involve black dots, but this one seems to focus on the flowers.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

chiatlan

Gloss Normalization:

Chiatlan

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:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

visual plural (multiples of objects)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Food, Eating, Cooking

Names (places)

Plants, Flora

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

rectangular

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

semillas, chia, topónimos, plantas, nombres de lugares

Museum & Rare Book Comparisons:

Museum/Rare Book Notes:

Desert Chia plant. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joshua_Tree_National_Park_flower...

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

chian, a food plant with oil-producing seeds, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chian
chiyan(tli), chia seeds, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chiyantli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Entre las Plantas de la Chía

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 878r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=828&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:

dropped "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: