Tlatoltopile (MH835v)

Tlatoltopile (MH835v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlatoltopile (perhaps "Word-Constable") is attested here as a man's name. It shows five thick speech scrolls emerging from the tribute payer's mouth. These scrolls or volutes represent "words" (tlatolli).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Typically, glyphs for tlatolli or Tlatol simple show volutes coming out of a human mouth--words that are said orally. We only have three examples of speech scrolls put on paper as though they were written words.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
Syntax: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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Keywords: 

volutas, speech scrolls, topiles, palabras, oralidad, nombres de hombres

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

tlatol, word, and a person's name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatol
topile, low-level, constable-like official, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/topile
tlatol(li), word or statement, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatolli

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 835v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=745&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).

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