Tlatoltopile (MH835v)

Tlatoltopile (MH835v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlatoltopile (perhaps "Word-Constable") is attested here as a man's name. It shows five thick speech scrolls emerging from the tribute payer's mouth. These scrolls or volutes represent "words" (tlatolli).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Typically, glyphs for tlatolli or Tlatol simple show volutes coming out of a human mouth--words that are said orally. We only have three examples of speech scrolls put on paper as though they were written words.

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:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Occupations

Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)

Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites

Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

volute(s)

Keywords:

volutas, speech scrolls, topiles, palabras, oralidad, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlatol, word, and a person's name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatol
topile, low-level, constable-like official, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/topile
tlatol(li), word or statement, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatolli

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 835v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=745&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:

"i" for e

Historical Contextualizing Image: