Tlailotlac (MH687v)

Tlailotlac (MH687v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name, title, or ethnicity, Tlailotlac is attested here as a man’s name. It shows an upright shape, something like a leaf, but with a border and something of a grid or mesh pattern inside the border in the main part of the leaf-shape. It also has a separate base that is slightly broader at the bottom than it is where it connects to the leaf shape. This shape is something like the background for the calli in Calmimilolcatl, below.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Other glyphs for this same name, title, or ethnicity appear below. Each one is fairly unique, including this one. One cause of the variations may be the range of meanings for Tlailotlac, from a personal name, to a title for a magistrate, to an ethnicity. Tlailotlaqui was also a label applied to someone in contempt. These glyphs require further research.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Juā tlayllotlac

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Tlailotlac

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood & Jeff Haskett-Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

title/office

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Occupations

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

border pattern

checked, cross-hatched, or mesh

leaf, marquise, pointed oval

Keywords:

jueces, títulos, magistrados, etnicidades, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Tlailotlac, a high magistrate, an ethnicity, or a personal name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/Tlailotlac

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, título de un magistrado

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 687v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=455&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

"y" for i

Historical Contextualizing Image: