Tlapalhuauh (MH648v)

Tlapalhuauh (MH648v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This simplex glyph for the personal name Tlapalhuauh ("Red Amaranth") appears here as a man's name. The glyph is a stemmed rounded cup of amaranth (huauhtli). It is painted red (tlapalli).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Amaranth often appears in glyphs as a phonetic indicator for hua, huauh, or cuauh, but here it is shown as a cup of grains that were ready to eat. These grains are also colored red, which covers the starting part to this name, Tlapal-.

Added Analysis, 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

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Ceramics, Pottery

Food, Eating, Cooking

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

red

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

spotted or mottled

dotted, granular, textured

frontal view

Keywords:

amaranto, bledos, comida, recipiente, tazón, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlapalhuauh(tli), red amaranth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlapalhuauhtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Amaranto Rojo

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 648v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=379&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).

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