Tlalli (MH493r)

Tlalli (MH493r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black and white sketch of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlalli ("Land" or "Agricultural Parcel") is a bird's eye view of a rectangular land parcel divided in half diagonally. The top half is gray and the bottom half is white (or left natural).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The significance of the particular design of this parcel of land (tlalli), which differs significantly from carved autonomous-era glyphs for land and differs from all the land glyphs in the Codex Mendoza, for example, is unclear. Perhaps it suggests a certain differentiation in land use, such as plowed/cultivated and fallow. Glyphs of land are typically rectangular, but they can have other shapes. There is another parcel divided diagonally from the Matrícula de Huexotzinco in this collection. In that one (below), one triangle is dotted and one has lines that may suggest furrows.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Juā tlalli

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Tlalli

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stockraising
Gender (male)
Land Parcels, Use, Issues
Landscape Features
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

José Aguayo-Barragán and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
gray
Shapes and Perspectives: 
diagonal or angled
bird's eye view
rectangular
Keywords: 

lands, parcels, tierras, agricultura, tenencia de la tierra, terrenos, sementeras

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tlal(li), agricultural land parcel, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

La Tierra, o La Sementera

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 493r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=65&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: 
See Also: 

tlalli (Mdz30r)

tlalli (Mdz32r)

Aoc Totlal (MH509v)

Tlalli (MH640v)

Tlalli (MH832r)