Intlacamama (MH617v)

Intlacamama (MH617v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Intlacamama (perhaps "His Person Carrier") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows what may be a wooden frame for carrying a person. Behind this frame there appears to be a bundle, rounded at the top and the bottom. Perhaps it is a shrouded person.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This glyph requires further decipherment and orthography work. An assumption is being made that the "taca" is meant as "tlaca" (from tlacatl, person or lord). The -meme ending is assumed to indicate mama. Various precedents support an overlap between mama (to carry) and meme. A case in point is tlamama (load barer) which is also seen as tlameme (and became tameme in Mexican Spanish). For a relevant discussion of these terms, see Ross Hassig, Trade, Tribute, and Transportation (Stanford, 1979), 28.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

gaspar y~tacameme

Gloss Normalization:

Gaspar Intlacamama

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)

possessive pronoun

verb

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

stepped

frontal view

Keywords:

carriers, people, gente, bastidores de transporte, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlaca(tl), person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacatl
mama, to carry, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mama
in-, possessive pronoun, their, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/node/176143

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Su Bastidor de Transporte de Gente

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 617v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=317&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:

"e" for a

"t" for tl

Historical Contextualizing Image: