Tlamayo (MH831v)

Tlamayo (MH831v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlamayo (perhaps “The Nature of a Wise One”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows an upside-down eye (ixtli).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Other than being upside-down, this eye is in the style of the ixtli of earlier times, when seeing and observing were a part of the process of gaining wisdom. The glyph for the name Tlamauh (“Wise One”) is the same eye, although styles vary across the lot.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

peo tlamayo

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Tlamayo

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)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Education, Knowledge, Wisdom
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle (half)
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
circle, circular or rounded
frontal view
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tlamauh, wise one, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamauh
-yotl, having the nature of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

A Manera de un Sabio

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 831v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=737&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: 

Tlamayo (MH619v)

Tlamayo (MH832v)

Tlamauh (MH642v)

Tlamauh (MH496r)

Tlamauh (MH522r)

Tlamauh (MH765r)

Tlamauhcatl (MH741v)

Tlamauh (MH496r)