Tolicpalli (MH879v)

Tolicpalli (MH879v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tolicpalli (“Seat of Woven Rushes”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a rectangular shape with three horizontal stripes, each one with diagonal stripes that suggests this is a woven object. At the top of the rectangle, four short lines stand up. Perhaps these are tules, so that the reader will know that this is a woven tule seat and not something made from a different substance.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

According to a source in our Onine Nahuatl Dictionary, these seats were supposed to have backs, and they were woven of an aquatic plant called espadaña. But perhaps there were regional variations.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

toribio . tolicpalli

Gloss Normalization: 

Toribio Tolicpalli

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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Furniture
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
rectangular
woven
Keywords: 

sillas, tules, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Silla de Tules Tejidos

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 879v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=831&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: 
intrusive period
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

in petlatl, in icpalli (Mdz68r)