Tlailotlac (MH598r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or occupation, Tlailotlac (“Magistrate," attested here as a man’s), shows what may be a striped cloth with four ends. Some of the ends curve and one curls.
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Another Tlailotlac name in this collection has a line drawing that somewhat resembles the shape of this cloth, hinting at a bird shape or perhaps a dancer (see below), but neither glyph clarifies the meaning or purpose of this visual. The term tlailotlac appears many times in the Florentine Codex, usually in association with magistrates (e.g. Mixcoatlailotlac), sometimes with rulers or leaders of groups. Alexis Wimmer (2004, cited in the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl), refers to the term tlailotlaca (or tlailotlacah, with the glottal stop) as someone of a certain ethnicity. The discussion of tlailotlacan in our Online Nahuatl Dictionary includes references to Chichimec, Zapotec, Mixtec, and even Tetzcocan ethnic identities.
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juan tlailotlac
Juan Tlailotlac
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1560
starfish, estrellas de mar, jueces, juez, judges
Tlailotlac, a magistrate or an ethnicity, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlailotlac
tlailotlacan, a common place name associated with various ethnicities, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlailotlacan
El Juez, El Tlailotlac
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 598r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=275st=image.
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