Millacatl (MH490r)

Millacatl (MH490r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex personal name Millacatl involves a rectangular parcel of land [a milli) with sets of parallel, vertical lines across it. These would appear to indicate furrows, which fits the category, because milli were farmed.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The -lacatl part of the name is not visible, but perhaps the man named Antonio who bore this name stands in for the tlacatl (person). In Nahuatl, when -tl- is preceded by -l-, the -t- is dropped, resulting in the -ll- (double el) of the name. The name Millacatl could also be an occupational designation, a person who works a milpa (which is milli in Spanish). In older glyphs, a milli could be textured with dots and u's, much like a tlalli.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

matheo millacatl

Gloss Normalization:

Matheo Millacatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Agriculture, Gardens, Stockraising

Gender (male)

Land Parcels, Use, Issues

Occupations

Cultural Content, Credit:

José Aguayo-Barragán and Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

Keywords:

milpas, agricultural parcels

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

mil(li), agricultural parcel, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/milli
tlaca(tl), a person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacatl

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 490r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=59&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: