Tlato (MH713r)

Tlato (MH713r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This colorful simplex glyph for the personal name, Tlato (“He Spoke”), is attested here as a man’s name. It shows three speech scrolls or volutes emerging from the mouth of the tribute payer himself. The upper one is red, the lower one is yellow, and the middle one is turquoise blue. The color scheme, if not random, remains to be clarified.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Speech scrolls can stand for any number of verbs or nouns that relate to speaking, singing.

Added Analysis, 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: 
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
blue (turquoise)
red
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
volute(s)
Keywords: 

hablar, volutas, nombres de hombres

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

tlatoa (or tlahtoa, with the glottal stop), to speak, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatoa-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Él Habló

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 713r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=504&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: 
"r" for l
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

tlatoa (MH485r)

tlatoa (Mdz19r)

tlatoa (MH483r)

nahuatl (Verg10v)

nahuatl (MH492r)

Tlatol (MH614v)

cuica (Mdz63r)