Amiztlato (MH761r)

Amiztlato (MH761r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a black-line compound glyph for a man's personal name Amiztlato (Amiztlahto, with the glottal stop), referring to "Leader among Hunters." The visual is a frontal view of a fruit from a prickly pear cactus. How this relates to hunting is unclear.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

juā amiztlato

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Amiztlato

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:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flowers

Food, Eating, Cooking

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition, Languages

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

spiky

Keywords:

nombres de hombres, hablar, agua, pumas, nopalli, tunas, flores

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Amiztlato, a leader among hunters, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/amiztlato
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
miz(tli), wildcat, cougar, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/miztli
tlatoa or tlahtoa with the glottal stop, to speak, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatoa

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Líder entre Cazadores

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 761r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=600&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: