Tlalicuiloa (MH875v)

Tlalicuiloa (MH875v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlalicuiloa (perhaps “He Registers Land”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a square agricultural parcel divided in half on a diagonal. The upper right corner has lots of markings, while the lower left has only a few. A hand to the left of the square holds a writing implement, with the point reaching about the middle of the square.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See below for a number of hieroglyphs that link the verb icuiloa (to write, paint, register, record, or sign) with various types of land (tlalli, cuemitl, xalli). The tool for writing often looks a lot like the implement for working the land (the huictli). But it could be that this is a way of referring to the registration or classification of parcels. Further research is required.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Ju^o tlali cuilova

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Tlalicuiloa

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

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)

verb

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising

Gender (male)

Land Parcels, Use, Issues

Landscape Features

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Writing, Literacy

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

back to front

Keywords:

tierras, sementeras, escritura, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlal(li), land, agricultural parcel, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalli
Icuiloa, to write or paint, register, record, sign, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icuiloa

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Él Registra Tierras

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 875v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=823&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

intrusive "v"

Historical Contextualizing Image: