Tlemaitl (BMapN89)

Tlemaitl (BMapN89)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlemaitl (“Handheld Censer”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a (right) hand holding the long handle of a nearly vertical clay censer. The bowl, at the top, contains a black substance. Three curls of smoke arise from the bowl. They are painted gray.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See additional examples of clay censers and fire carriers, below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

This glyph is not glossed; the transliteration of the glyph comes from Gordon Whittaker’s contribution to the study by Mary E. Miller and Barbara E. Mundy (2012).

Source Manuscript:

Beinecke Map (BMap)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1565

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City or the Valley of Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black

gray

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

volute(s)

Keywords:

incensarios, manos, badires, fuego, humo, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlema(itl), a handheld clay censer or fire carrier, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlemaitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Incensario de Mano

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Beinecke Map/Codex Reese, section 8, no. 89 in the Whittaker study (published in the Miller/Mundy book, 2012), and see the original at: https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3600017

Image Source, Rights:

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).

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