Tizaatl (MH495v)

Tizaatl (MH495v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound Nahuatl hieroglyph for the personal name Tizaatl (perhaps "Chalk-Water" or "Varnish") is attested here as a man's name. The compound has two components. The first is a horizontal chunk of chalk (tizatl) with somewhat ragged edges, perhaps as it came out of the earth. Flowing down from the chalk are two slightly curvy streams of water. Each one has an internal line of current, suggesting movement, and a droplet at the lower tip.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Chalk water does not appear in the dictionary, but there is a varnish called "tizatl" (literally chalk, but perhaps it has inadvertently dropped the second a, which would distinguish it from simply chalk). Chalk entered Mexican Spanish as "tiza."

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

Juan
tiçaatl

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Juan Tizaatl

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Art, Design, Crafts, etc.
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
curving, curvy, curved
facing right
profile view
shading and parallel line hatching
wavy
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

nombres de hombres, men's names

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

a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
tiza(tl), chalk, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tizatl

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 495v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=70&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: 
"ç" for z or tz
Historical Contextualizing Image: