Tlalli (MH667v)

Tlalli (MH667v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlalli (“Agricultural Parcel”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a circle filled in with dots, suggestive of a parcel of land (tlalli) that has been seeded.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

In the Tlalli name glyphs found in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, parcels of land can be circular (as shown here) or rectangular. The rectangle is sometimes divided diagonally, with alternating dark and light parts. Sometimes these are shown to be cultivated, too. The earlier Codex Mendoza typically shows rectangles that are divided into two or more segments of alternating colors (orange and purple), with dots and sideways U-shapes.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
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)
Land Parcels, Use, Issues
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
Keywords: 

tierras, parcelas, sementeras, agricultural, nombres de hombres

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: 

Sementera

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 667v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=415&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 (MH564r)

Tlalli (MH536v)

Tlalli (MH832r)

tlalli (Mdz51r)