tlama (MH833v)

tlama (MH833v)
Simplex Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the noun Tlama ("Physician," "Surgeon," or "Healer," attested here as a man's occupation). It shows a frontal view of a rounded jug with a small handle on each side and one in the middle. Something that looks like a stirring stick appears coming out of the top of the vessel.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The glyph for tlamatqui (health practitioner) is somewhat similar to this one, but it shows a bag or sack with something emerging from the top.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

tlama

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Containers, Dishes, Eating Utensils
Health, Medicine
Labor Issues
Occupations
Pottery, Earthenware
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
Keywords: 

médico, doctor, medicina, curador, oficios, occupations, earthenware, ceramic, ceramics, cerámicas, jug, pot, olla, jarra, jarro, vessel, vessels, vasija de cerámica, cántaro, cántaros, xoctli, xoctepi, huicolli, atlacuihuani, tecomitl, tecontontli, apilolli

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

tlama, surgeon, physician, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlama-1

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 833r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=741&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: 

tlama (MH843r)

tlama (MH833v)

tlamatqui (MH628v)

tlamatqui (MH628v)

tepatia (CST39)

cocoxqui (Osu6v)

Cocoxqui (MH848v)

Cocoliztli (MH638v)

Cocoliz (MH776v)

Cocoliz (MH758v)

ticitl (CST39)

tlama (MH828v)

tlamatini (FCbk10f19v)

tecomatl (FCbk10f107v)

ticitl (FCbk11f169v)

Tlamatzinco (TK205r)