Tlamaca (MH777r)

Tlamaca (MH777r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name and occupation Tlamaca ("He Serves") is attested here as a man's name. It shows the head of a male in profile, looking toward the viewer's right. The only thing that separates this male from the typical tribute payer in this census is his haircut or hair style. Otherwise, there is nothing in the glyph about serving food.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

If this glyph does not represent a servant, it may be an ethnic epithet, "Different," or indicating someone from Tlamanca (modern state of Puebla). If that is the case, the letter “n” has inadvertently dropped away. Tlamaca (possibly meaning Tlamanca) is given in this manuscript several times as a name. Three men of this name also appear in Congregaciones civiles de Tulancingo, eds. Jesús Ruvalcaba and ‎Ariane Baroni (1994, 83) and in other sources. While it translates literally as "to provide food" ("dar de comer" in some sources), perhaps it became equated with servant, similar to tetlacualti.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

franco. tlamaca

Gloss Normalization: 

Francisco Tlamaca

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)
phrase or sentence
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Hair (human or animal)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Occupations
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
profile view
facing right
Keywords: 

sustentar, alimentar, dar de comer, servir, nombres de hombres

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

tlamaca, to serve (verb), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamaca
tlamanca, separate or different, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamanca

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Servir o Alimentar

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 777r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=628&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: 

Tlamaca (MH499r)

Tlamaca (MH538r)

Tlamanca (MH843v)

Tlamanca (MH811r)

Tlamanca (MH814v)