Tlatlati (MH606r)

Tlatlati (MH606r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlatlati (“He Who Guards Things,” attested here as a man’s name) shows two human fists grabbing onto something. The object curls at each end.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The word tlatlati can also refer to someone who starts fires. However, it is not clear that the visual dimensions of this glyph indicate fire. See fire and flame comparisons below.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

antonio tlatlati

Gloss Normalization: 

Antonio Tlatlati

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)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Keywords: 

guardar, fuego, mano

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

tlatlati, he who guards things or makes fire, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatlati

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Él Que Guarda Cosas, o Él Que Hace Fuego

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 606r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=294st=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: 

Teocuitlatlan (Mdz13v)

Tlatlatoc (MH500r)

Tlatlacol (MH577v)