Tlamanca (MH843v)

Tlamanca (MH843v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph seems to represent the ethnic epithet, Tlamanca ("Different"), rather than the verb "Tlamaca" ("He Serves"), which might be taken as a servant.
The way this man has face paint and an ornament protruding from below his lower lip, (tentetl or tezacatl), suggests that he is a different ethnicity. Perhaps the label refers to someone from the community of the same name, Tlamanca, which is in the modern state of Puebla.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

A similar face paint, but even more pronounced, can be found on the Tlamanca glyph from the Matrícula de Huexotzinco on folio 811 recto. Compare these two against the Tlamaca glyphs below that are also a part of this collection.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

caspal tlamaca

Gloss Normalization:

Gaspar Tlamanca

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

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

pointed (see also spiky)

profile view

facing right

Keywords:

etnicidad, diferencia, server, serviente, mesero, paje, servidor, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Diferente, o Aparte

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:

"c" for g

"l" for r

Historical Contextualizing Image: