Tlapal (MH855r)

Tlapal (MH855r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlapal (“Paint” or “Color”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a human hand reaching in from the left. It is holding a writing or painting implement, a semantic representation for the noun tlapalli (paint, or color).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Implements for writing and painting are very popular glyphs or glyphic elements in this collection. Incidentally, Tlapal can also mean "a little man," which is seen in another glyph, below. So it is possible that this simplex glyph is phonographic rather than logographic.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

dieo tlapal

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Tlapal

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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Writing, Literacy
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

pintar, pintura, color, tinta, hombre pequeño, nombres de hombres

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

tlapal(li), paint, color, dye, or red, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlapalli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Pintura, o Color

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 855r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=782&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: 

Tlapal (MH857v)

Tlapal (MH717r)

Tlapal (MH814v)

Tlapal (MH770r)