Mamal (MH785v)

Mamal (MH785v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Mamal (perhaps "Driller" or "Drilled") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows two hands with a stick between them, at an angle, reaching down to a horizontal board. The intention is to show someone involved in drilling (involving the verb, mamali) fire, by rolling the stick to create fiction at its base and start a fire in the lower piece of wood.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

As a ritual act, which came at the end of every 52-year cycle in the calendar that was a count of the years (xiuhpohualli), this was called mamalhuaztli. See the article on the topic by Ian Mursell, published in Mexicolore.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

matheo manmal

Gloss Normalization: 

Mateo Mamal

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: 
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke
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: 
diagonal or angled
facing right
profile view
rectangular
Keywords: 

nombres de hombres, taladro, hacer fuego, fuego nuevo

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

mama(li), to drill, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mamali

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 785v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=645&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: 
"th" for t, d, or gd
intrusive "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Mamalhuaztepec (Mdz7v)

mamalhuaztli (Mdz7v)

mamalhuaztli (Mdz15v)

mamalhuaztli (TR27r)

mamalhuaztli (TR29v)

mamalhuaztli (Azca11)

mamalhuaztli (TR42r)