Tlahuan (MH690r)

Tlahuan (MH690r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlahuan (“Drunkard”) is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a bowl with foam (dotted) on the top. The bowl has a symbol on the side (yacametztli, nose crescent) that indicates the bowl is filled with octli (an alcoholic beverage called pulque in modern Spanish).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The Florentine Codex provides an example of a drunk person (tlahuanqui–see below), and this name here seems to be a short version of that term. The visual is basically the beverage itself that could get someone intoxicated, octli. See examples of octli glyphs below, too.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pedro tlavā

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Tlahuan

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: 
Beverages
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
dotted, granular, textured
frontal view
Keywords: 

alcohol, emborracharse, embriagarse, ebrio, intoxicación, bebidas, nombres de hombres

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

tlahuanqui, an intoxicated person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahuanqui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Borracho

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 690r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=460&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: 
"v" for u, uh, or hu
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

tlahuanqui (FCbk4f11v)

Ocpayocan (Mdz23r)

Octlan (Mdz44r)

octli (Mdz65r)

octli (Mdz71r)

octli (Mdz71r)