Zacatlema (MH677r)

Zacatlema (MH677r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Zacatlema (“Incense Burner for Zacate”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a hand (maitl) holding a long, horizontal, ceramic incense burner (tlemaitl). In the round bowl at the end away from the hand some grasses (zacatl) are burning in a small fire (tletl). The hand provides a semantic reading, but it also contributes the -ma to the name.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Ceramics, Pottery

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Religion (Indigenous)

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

left to right

Keywords:

incensarios, fuego, cerámica, portátil, zacate nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

zaca(tl), grasses, weeds, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zacatl
tle(tl), fire, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tletl
tlema(itl), a clay, hand-held censer, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlemaitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Incensario Para Zacate

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 677r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=434&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: