Tlamatzincatl (MH626r)

Tlamatzincatl (MH626r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for Tlamatzincatl ("Person from Tlamatzinco"), is attested here as a man's name. This is a personal name, but it is also a deity name, and it can refer to an ethnic affiliation with a pueblo called Tlamatzinco. The glyph shows a frontal view of an upright right hand (maitl), which is a phonetic indicator for the -ma- part of the name. To the right of the hand appears to be an elevation view of construction made of stones or adobe bricks, which serves as a phonetic indicator for the -tzin- part of the name, from tzintli, foundation.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

If not referring to the deity, this name can derive from Tlamatzinco, "At the Revered Sage" (i.e., Place of the Wise Person). There is a Santo Tomás Tlamatzinco in Azcapotzalco, for example.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Diego
tlamatzicatl

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Tlamatzincatl

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
title/office
Syntax: 
noun(s)
tzin(tli) as reverential suffix
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Beverages
Gender (female)
Gender (male)
Gifts, Offerings, Sacrifice
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
Religion (Indigenous)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
elevation view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
undetermined as yet
Keywords: 

deity names, pulque, bebidas, sacrificios humanos, mujeres, religión indígena, sabios, ethnicidades, nombres de hombres

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

Tlamatzincatl, a deity associated with pulque, a title of Tezcatlipoca, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamatzincatl
ma(itl), hand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maitl
Tlamatzinco, a barrio of Azcapotzalco, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamatzinco
tlamatini, a wise person, scholar, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamatini

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

(título de Tezcatlipoca)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 626r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=334&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: 
dropped "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: