Tlahuilan (MH558v)

Tlahuilan (MH558v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlahuilan (“Dragger,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a horizontal beam, attached to a rope, attached to a hand. This is a semantic representation of the verb to drag (tlahuilana). While this glyph is in the proper place for a personal name, it could also be an occupation.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This is the way heavy beams were taken to construction sites. The beam (huapalli) would have a hole in one. A rope (mecatl) would be attached to the beam using that hole. Then, the heavy beam would be ragged by a human being.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

verb

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Gender (male)

Labor Issues

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Occupations

Rope, cord

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

horizontal

tied, bound, or bundled

Keywords:

drag, arrastrar, beams, vigas, wood, madera, cords, mecates, tied, amarrado

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlahuilana, to drag (here, wooden beams), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahuilana

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

arrastrador [de una viga de madera]

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 558v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=196&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).

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