Tlacuilolatl (MH779v)

Tlacuilolatl (MH779v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name XXX (perhaps “Painted-Water”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a typical flow of water with three streams, a droplet at the end of each one, and a line of current (movement) down the middle of each one. Nothing in this image suggests a piece of writing or a painting (tlacuilolli).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The Acuicuil name glyph from this same manuscript has a swirl at the top, which one might have expected to see here, too. But this water does not swirl.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

aloSu tlacuillolatl

Gloss Normalization:

Alonso Tlacuilolatl

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)

visual movement

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

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)

shimmer, vibrance, shine with warmth & movement

Keywords:

agual, pintura, escritura, numbers de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlacuilol(li), a document, painting, or design, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacuilolli
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Agua Pintada

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 779v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=633&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:

"ll" for l

"u" for o

dropped "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: