Tlilpitzac (MH717r)

Tlilpitzac (MH717r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This simplex glyph for the personal name, Tlilpitzac (perhaps, “Black Stripe”), is attested here as a man’s name. It shows one thin, vertical, black stripe.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Molina notes that this can refer to a staff of office or a rope. In the Florentine Codex (according to A. Wimmer 2004), tlilpitzahuac is found as a description for a skirt with vertical black stripes. The skirts in this digital collection do sometimes have vertical black stripes (see below).

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:

adjective

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Color names

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

vertical, upright

Keywords:

rayado, negro, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlil(li), black, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlilli
pitzactic, something thin and long, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pitzactic

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Raya Negra

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 717r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=512&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:

"ç" for z or tz

Historical Contextualizing Image: