Tlamatzohual (MH487v)

Tlamatzohual (MH487v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlamatzohual shows a frontal view of a raised human fist (seemingly pertaining to a left hand) with partial arm below. Something protrudes from above and below the fist, presumably a folded tortilla (tlamatzohualli) that the person is about to eat.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This grasping hand seems to play the role of providing the "hua" logographic syllable conveying the meaining of possession.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pedro tlamatzoval

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Tlamatzohual

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

Xitlali Torres

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
hua (grasping hand)
noun(s)
possessive pronoun
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Corn, Maize
Food, Eating, Cooking
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Xitlali Torres

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
vertical, upright
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tlamatzohual(li<)/em>, folded tortilla, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamatzoalli.

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

La Tortilla Doblada

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 487v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=54&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: