Tilma (MH649r)

Tilma (MH649r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tilma ("Cloak") appears as the name of a man. It is a bird's eye view of a square cloak, cape, or blanket (tilmatli) with a white border and a mesh pattern inside the border.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

As the evidence shows in the our Online Nahuatl Dictionary, the tilmatli was an item of preciosity that could be the subject of theft. However, there were tilmas of high and low quality. A lower-quality tilma might be made of zacatl (grasses).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pedro tilma

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Tilma

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: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
checked, cross-hatched, or mesh
frontal view
rectangular
Keywords: 

tilmas, textiles, telas, diseños, nombres de hombres

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

tilma(tli), cloak or cape worn by the elite, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tilmatli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Tilma

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 649r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=380&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: 
See Also: 

Cuauhtilma (MH535r)

Tliltilma (MH625r)

Xochitilma (MH487r)

Zacatilma (MH574r)

Ecatilma (MH860r)