Tlaltecatl (MH676r)

Tlaltecatl (MH676r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlaltecatl (perhaps “Person of the Land” or “One from Tlallan”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows what looks like a plate of a granular substance. But the gloss would suggest the visual elements represent dirt or land (tlalli).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The man with this name may have been named for the famous lord Tlatecatzin, who was, according to numerous sources, a poet/singer born in the fourteenth century in what is now a part of Puebla that was dominated by the Chichimecs of Tetzcoco. Tlaltecatzin was a predecessor of Nezahualcoyotl.

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:

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:

dotted, granular, textured

horizontal

Keywords:

tierra, parcelas, agricultura, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlal(li), land parcel, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalli
tlallan, in or under the ground, or it could be a place name, Tlallan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlallan
-teca(tl), (affiliation suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Uno de la Tierra, o Uno de Tlallan

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 676r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=432&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: