Tlalli (MH648r)

Tlalli (MH648r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlalli (perhaps "Soil") appears here as a man's name. The glyph consists of a circle filled with dots. They dots may suggest granulated dirt or soil. In some cases, dotted parcels can appear to be cultivated, perhaps punctured all over with a digging stick to make holes for the seeds.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Tlalli (dirt, soil, land, the Earth) is more common as a personal name than one might expect, and yet land is key to life in agricultural societies. Parcels of land can be round or rectangular in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco. See below for examples. In the Codex Mendoza, they are usually rectangular strips that are subdivided.

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

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising
Gender (male)
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: 

tierras, parcelas, agricultura, semillas, sementeras, cultivo, nombres de hombres

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

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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Sementera

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 648r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=378&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 (MH493r)

Tlalli (MH529v)

Tlalli (MH536v)

Tlalli (MH564r)

Tlalli (MH640v)