Tlaltepi (MH506r)

Tlaltepi (MH506r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlaltepi features a bird's eye view of a small (tepi(ton)) (tlalli). The land has markings on it, which may indicate cultivation.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The visuals for tlalli here are a far cry from some of the representations of land parcels in the Codex Mendoza, with their segments of alternating colors, dots, and u-shapes. But those markings do also seem to indicate markings of cultivation, which is partly the support for interpreting the markings on this glyph.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pedro
tlaltepi

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Tlaltepi

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stockraising
Gender (male)
Measurements, Quantities
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
dotted, granular, textured
bird's eye view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

parcels, parcelas, tierras, agricultura, tamaños, pequeño

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

tlal(li), a parcel, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalli
tepiton, a little bit, something little, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepiton

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

La Parcela Pequeña(?)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 506r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=91&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)

Aoc Totlal (MH509v)

tlalli (Mdz30r)