Tlaol (MH639r)

Tlaol (MH639r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlaol ("Maize," or "Corn Kernels") shows two kernels of corn. They are rather hastily drawn and not very detailed. For a comparison, see some other examples below.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
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: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising
Corn, Maize
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
rectangular
symmetry
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

maíz, granos, grains of corn, kernels

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

tlaol(li), maize kernels, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaolli

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 639r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=360st=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: 

tlaolli (Mdz10v)

tlaolli (Mdz36r)

tlaolli (Mdz2v)

Tlaol (MH486v)