Tletlepan (MH545v)

Tletlepan (MH545v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This colorful simplex glyph of the personal name or place of origin, Tletlepan (perhaps "On the Fires"), shows about fourteen, wavy, red, upright flames. Two in the middle are emphasized with more of an outline and more curling at the top of the flames.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The doubling of the central flames appears to work as a visual reduplication, such as is found in the gloss, with the doubling of the first syllable.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Juā tletlepa

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

reduplication (in gloss/text)

reduplication (visual)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

red

Shapes and Perspectives:

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

curving, curvy, curved

Keywords:

fire, fuego, flames, flamas, spiral, espiral

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tle(tl), fire, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tletl
pan, in or on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 545v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=170&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: