Tlalli (MH536v)

Tlalli (MH536v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlalli ("Land" or “Agricultural Parcel,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a bird's eye view of a rectangular parcel of agricultural land. It is dotted, which suggests it has been cultivated and possibly planted with seeds.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This glyph for a parcel of agricultural land has evolved considerably since the time of the Codex Mendoza and before. It is no longer segmented, painted with alternating colors, and the U-shapes are no longer employed to show cultivation. The same iconography for tlalli in the Codex Mendoza could be found in parcels called milli and ixtlahuatl, too. (See below.) Of all these terms relating to land parcels, only Tlalli appears to be used as a personal name in Huejotzingo in 1560, and it varies from rectangular to circular, and rectangles are sometimes divided on a diagonal.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juan.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): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

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

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
boxed in
dotted, granular, textured
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), land, agricultural parcel, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

La Tierra, o La Sementera

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 536v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=152&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 (Mdz51r)

milli (Mdz25r)

Tlalli (MH493r)

Tlalli (MH499v)

Tlalli (MH564r)

Tlalli (MH640v)

Tlalli (MH776v)