Tolama (MH711r)

Tolama (MH711r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the personal name, Tolama (“Tule Paper”), is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a frontal view of an upright tule plant with four, long, spiky green leaves, two on each side. Up the middle is a white stem with a white shape at the top that resembles a cattail. Below the plant is a white square that is meant to convey “paper” (amatl).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Tule paper is known in Mexico. For a photo, click here. Of course, most paper (amatl) came from the bark of a tree.

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, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Paper
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
green (light)
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
rectangular
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

papeles, tules, nombres de hombres

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

tol(in), tules, rushes, reeds, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tolin-1
ama(tl), paper, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/amatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Papel de Tules

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 711r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=500&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: 
"ll" for l
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

amatl (MH795r)

Amantecatl (MH745v)