Camatol (MH835r)

Camatol (MH835r)
Simplex Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Camatol ("Well-Spoken," attested here as a man's name) shows the head of a man in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. From his mouth (cama- being related to "mouth") emerges a tule plant (tolin). These elements seem to represent phonetic indicators for camatoltecatl (one who is adroit in speech).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Where speech scrolls might have been used to refer to being well-spoken, the tule plant serves as a substitution that provides the needed "tol" in the name.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

angosti camatol

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Agostín Camatol

Gloss/Text 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
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
syllable: tol (from tolin, tule)
syllables/two: cama (from cama-, mouth-related)
visual sound
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
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: 
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

hablar, tules, nombres de hombres, men’s names, fonetismo

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

camatoltecatl, one who is adroit in speech, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/camatoltecatl
tol(in), reeds, rushes, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tolin-1
camac, in the mouth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/camac
camachal(li), jaw, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/camachalli
Tolteca, the Toltecs, much-admired ancestors who did everything well, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tolteca

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 875r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=822&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"
intrusive "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: