Tlalli (MH564r)

Tlalli (MH564r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlalli (perhaps "Soil") is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a bird's eye view of a number of dots that may suggest dirt or soil. They are contained in a circle, but it seems unlikely that an agricultural plot would be circular, so perhaps the circle is meant just to contain the dots.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The shape of glyphs for tlalli in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco are often squares or circles, whereas in the Codex Mendoza they are typically long rectangles divided into segments of alternating colors, and what may be cultivation marks are dots and u-shapes. See some examples below.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

dieo tlalli

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego 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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising
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: 
circle, circular or rounded
dotted, granular, textured
bird's eye view
Keywords: 

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

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

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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Sementera

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 564r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=207&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 (Mdz27r)

Tlalli (MH499v)

Tlalli (MH493r)

Tlalli (MH536v)

Tlaltepi (MH506r)

Tlalli (MH529v)

Tlalli (MH640v)

Tlalli (MH755v)

Tlalli (MH667v)