Miahuatamal (MH855r)

Miahuatamal (MH855r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Miahuatamal (“Maize Blossom Tamale”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a small round object with at least two strips of corn husk wrapping the ball. This is a tamalli (tamale).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Tamales often appear as round objects, but not always. See some other examples, below. Note how the gloss involves a few letters that were crossed out, and the final syllable is below the line.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tomas miyavatamal

Gloss Normalization:

Tomás Miahuatamal

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:

Corn, Maize

Flowers

Food, Eating, Cooking

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

tied, bound, or bundled

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

miahua(tl), the flower of the maize plaint, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/miahuatl
tamal(li), tamale, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tamalli

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 855r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=782&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:

"v" for u, uh, or hu

errors and revisions

intrusive "y"

Historical Contextualizing Image: