Tlalton (MH552r)

Tlalton (MH552r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlalton (“Little Agricultural Parcel,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a bird's eye view of a rectangle with smaller concentric rectangles. The border area contains small circles all the way around and just inside the largest rectangle. Inside that is a white border. Within the white border is a dotted area, probably suggesting cultivation. The diminutive (-ton-) is not shown visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This Tlalton simplex glyphs is much like the one for Tlalicuilol, with its elaborate designs, and yet different from the tlalli with segmentation, two colors, dots, and sideways U-shapes of the Codex Mendoza.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pedro tlalto

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Tlalton

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, Stockraising
Gender (male)
Land Parcels, Use, Issues
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
boxed in
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
dotted, granular, textured
horizontal
bird's eye view
rectangular
U-shapes (any direction)
Keywords: 

sementeras, diseños en las tierras

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

tlal(li), land parcel, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalli
ton(tli), small, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tontli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

La Sementera Pequeña

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 552r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=183&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: 

Tlalton (MH550r)

Tlalicuilol (MH551r)

tlalli (Mdz51r)