Tlatoltzon (MH895v)

Tlatoltzon (MH895v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlatoltzon (literally, “Word-Hair”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows three rising volutes (tlatolli). The upper two have a clump of short, straight, vertical hairs (tzontli) rising up from them.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

fran^co tlatoltzō

Gloss Normalization:

Francisco Tlatoltzon

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)

visual plural (multiples of objects)

visual sound

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Hair (human or animal)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)

Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition, Languages

Writing, Literacy

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

vertical, upright

volute(s)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

palabras, hablar, peloo, cabellos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlatol(li), word, statement, speech, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatolli
tzon(tli), hair or 400, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Palabra-Pelo

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 895v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=863&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: