Tlalli (MH644r)

Tlalli (MH644r)
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 white (with dots perhaps suggesting that it is seeded) and the bottom half is black. The differences may suggest parceling and/or different crops being grown on the land.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Tlalli was a fairly common name for Nahua men in the Huexotzinco region, but the glyph could vary. Some are square, some are round. These all very considerably from the iconography for tlalli in the Codex Mendoza of almost two decades earlier.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

diego 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

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

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

tierras, sementeras

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

tla(li), piece of land, cultivated field, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Tierra

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 644r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=370&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 (MH493r)

Tlalli (MH499v)

Tlalli (MH529v)

Tlalli (MH564r)

tlalli (Mdz51r)

Tlalli (MH832r)