Tlahuitol (MH530v)

Tlahuitol (MH530v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlahuitol (“Bow,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a bow (as in "bow and arrow") with a curving piece of wood and a twisting cord or rope opposite that.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pablo tlahuitol

Gloss Normalization:

Pablo Tlahuitol

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)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Hunting and Fishing

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Rope, cord

Technology (all types), plus Tools

War or Conflict

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

facing right

profile view

vertical, upright

Keywords:

bows and arrows, arcos y flechas, hunt, cazar, warfare, guerra

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlahuitol(li), a bow (as in bow and arrow), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahuitolli
tlahuitol(li), a bow for shooting arrows, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahuitolli
tlaminqui, a person who shoots with a bow and arrow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaminqui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

El Arco

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 530v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=140&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: