Tomiyauh (MH554v)

Tomiyauh (MH554v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tomiyauh (“Nuestra Flor de Maíz,” attested here as a woman’s name) shows a maize flower (miyahuatl) with two inward-ly curving blossom sprays and a single leaf on either side.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Women's names are a small minority of the names of tribute payers in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, so we have much less information about the nature and range of names given to girls at birth.

Another example in this collection for the maize bloom, below, also shows a pair of flowering sprigs, but in that example, from the Codex Mendoza, the sprigs turn the opposite direction of this one. Still, the curvature and the segmentation are similar.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

angatā tomiyauh

Gloss Normalization: 

Ágata Tomiyauh

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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)
possessive pronoun
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Corn, Maize
Flowers
Gender (female)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
frontal view
segmented
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

maíz, maize, flowers, blossoms, flores, torcidas, posesivo, nuestro, nombres de mujeres, género

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

to-, our (possessive pronoun), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/node/175783
miyahua(tl), maize tassel-flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/miyahuatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Nuestra Flor de Maíz

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 554v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=188&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: 
See Also: 

miyahuatl (Mdz52r)