Tizamitl (MH526r)

Tizamitl (MH526r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tizamitl (“Chalk-Arrow,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a vertical arrow (mitl), point down. The point of the arrow pierces a small square. That square might represent chalk (tizatl), but it does not resemble other examples of chalk in this collection.

Added Analysis: 

Tizamitl is still a popular Nahua name in Mexico today.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juā tiçamitl

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Tizamitl

Gloss 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: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
War or Conflict
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
pointed (see also spiky)
rectangular
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

tiza, chalk, flechas, dardas, arrows, darts

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

tiza(tl), chalk, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tizatl
mi(tl), arrow or dart, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mitl

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 526r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=131&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: 

mitl (Mdz23r)

mitl (Mdz40r)

tizatl (Mdz21v)

tizatl (Mdz52r)

tizatl (Mdz22r)