Zacatilma (MH774v)

Zacatilma (MH774v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Zacatilma (“Hay Cape,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a view of a cape tied at the top. Straight lines in the middle of the cape provide a suggestion of the grass or hay.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

doribio çacatilma

Gloss Normalization:

Toribio Zacatilma

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:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

tied, bound, or bundled

Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

textiles, ropa, nobles, jerarquía social, tilmas, paja, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

zaca(tl), hay, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zacatl
tilma(tli), cloak, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tilmatli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Tilma de Paja

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 774v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=623&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

"d" for t

Historical Contextualizing Image: