Tonal (MH658r)

Tonal (MH658r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tonal ("Day," "Sun," or "Solar Animating Force") is attested here as a man's name. It shows a frontal view of a sun in the European style of an anthropomorphic face and pointy rays emanating out from the face. Above the sun is a flower (making the glyph compound), but it does not play an obvious role in this name if the gloss is reliable. It could be that Xochitonal was meant, as this is a popular name.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

po.tonal

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Pedro Tonal

Gloss/Text 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)
rays (e.g., tonalli, tonatiuh, or ilhuitl)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Celestial Phenomena
Flowers
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Religion (Indigenous)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
shimmer, vibrance, shine with warmth & movement
spiky
tripartite
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
undetermined as yet
Other Cultural Influences: 
Spanish/European
Keywords: 

soles, caras, flores, rayos, tonal, flor, nombres de hombres

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

tonal(li), sun, day, solar animating force, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tonalli
xoch(itl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Sol

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 658r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=396&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: 

Xochitonal (MH565v)

Xochitonal (MH568r)

Xochitonal (MH591v)

Tonaloxochitl (MH559v)

Atonal (MH487v)

Tonal (MH577v)

Tonal (MH881r)

Tonaxochitl (MH704v)