Tlalicuilol (MH746v)

Tlalicuilol (MH746v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound personal name Tlalicuilol (perhaps “Land-Writing”) shows a rectangular piece of land (tlalli) divided diagonally. The lower left half is dotted, which suggests this is soil/dirt and perhaps it is seeded. The upper right half has squiggly (-cuil-) lines on it suggesting either writing (icuilolli) or a design.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

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)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising

Gender (male)

Landscape Features

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Writing, Literacy

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

rectangular

diagonal or angled

curving, curvy, curved

dotted, granular, textured

bird's eye view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

tierras, agricultura, escritura, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tla(li), land, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalli
icuilol(li), a piece of writing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icuilolli
cuilol(li), writing or a design, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuilolli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Tierra-Escritura

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 746v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=571&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

dropped "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: