Cantlamati (MH639r)

Cantlamati (MH639r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cantlamati is attested here as a man's name. The visual is a right hand with its index finger pointing upward. The meaning of the name requires further investigation, the the hand (maitl) could at least serve as the phonetic indicator for the -ma- in the middle of the name.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

A pointing index finger can also be found in Nahua pictorials in association with people who have a voice, such as a tlatoani (ruler). To have knowledge would be fitting of a ruler, too.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as phonogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Body postures
Education, Knowledge, Wisdom
Gender (male)
Gestures with hands
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
profile view
facing right
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Keywords: 

nombres de hombres

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

tlamati, to know something or to know magic, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamati
can-, where, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/can-0

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 639r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=360st=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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