Tlamaca (MH843v)

Tlamaca (MH843v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlamaca ("Serves Food") is attested here as a man's name. There is no evidence of serving food in the glyph, but the person does have some features that could suggest an "othering," including his hairstyle, the criss-crossing lines on his cheek, and the ornament protruding from below is lower lipe (tentetl or tezacatl).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

caspal tlamaca

Gloss Normalization: 

Gaspar 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
Face Paint or Tattoos
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Labor Issues
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Occupations
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

server, serviente, mesero, paje, servidor

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

tlamaca, to serve food, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamaca

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Administra la Comida

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 843v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=761&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).

Orthography: 
"ç" for z or tz
"l" for r
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tlamaca (MH499r)

Tlamaca (MH538r)

Tlamaca (MH777r)