tlaolli (LTlaxUT1b)

tlaolli (LTlaxUT1b)
Simplex Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This simplex Nahuatl hieroglyph is a black-line drawing of dozens of maize kernels in a cluster and with a few individual kernels scattered around the cluster. This was food that was provided as tribute (taxation in kind) by the Tlaxcalteca to their Spanish allies.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Tlaolli involves kernels that have been removed from the cobs and dried. These kernels would then be ground into a maize dough for making tortillas, tamales, and other foods. There are several examples of tlaolli in this digital collection already, along with cobs of corn (e.g., centli or cintli, elotl, xilotl, etc.). Some Nahuas had the personal name Tlaol, and there was at least one place name Tlaollan.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

.tlaolli.

Gloss/Text Normalization:

tlaolli

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Tlaxcala, Lienzo de, UT (LTlaxUT)

Date of Manuscript:

1540s

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Tlaxcala and other parts of early Mexico

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Corn, Maize

Food, Eating, Cooking

Plants, Flora

Tributes, Taxation, Service

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Keywords:

corn, maize, maíz, mazorca, elote, jilote, comida, tributo, tributos, aliados, españoles

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlaol(li), maize kernels removed from the cob, cured, and dried, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaolli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

maíz desgranado, curado, y seco

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Benson Latin American Collection, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, The University of Texas at Austin https://collections.lib.utexas.edu/catalog/utblac:3c754fd0-b27f-4af7-9cf...

Image Source, Rights:

The Benson Library has kindly provided the digital images and permission to put them into our Mapas Project in 2015. Use and reproduction from this project: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/, but please also cite the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood, (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities Projects, ©2020-present). Version 1.0.

Orthography:

intrusive period

Historical Contextualizing Image: