Tlalli (MH648r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlalli ("Land") appears here as a man's name. The glyph consists of a circle filled with dots.
Stephanie Wood
"Land" 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.
juan tlalli
Juan Tlalli
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
tierras, parcelas, agricultura, semillas, sementeras, cultivo
tlal(li), land, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalli
Tierra
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 648r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=378&st=image
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