tlama (MH833v)

tlama (MH833v)
Simplex Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the noun Tlama ("Health Practitioner," attested here as a man's occupation). It shows a frontal view of a rounded jug with a small handle on each side. Something that looks like a ruler emerges from the top of the container.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The glyph for tlamatqui (health practitioner) is somewhat similar to this one, but it shows a bag or sack with something emerging from the top.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

...lama

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

tlama

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Containers, Dishes, Eating Utensils
Health, Medicine
Labor Issues
Occupations
Pottery, Earthenware
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
Keywords: 

médico, doctor, medicina, curador, earthenware, ceramic, ceramics, cerámicas, jug, pot, olla, jarra, jarro, vessel, vessels, vasija de cerámica, cántaro, cántaros, xoctli, xoctepi, huicolli, atlacuihuani, tecomitl, tecontontli, apilolli

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 833r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=741&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: 
See Also: 

tlama (MH843r)

tlamatqui (MH628v)

tlamatqui (MH628v)

tlamatque (MH643r)

tepatia (CST39)

cocoxqui (Osu6v)

Cocoxqui (MH848v)

Cocoliztli (MH638v)

Cocoliz (MH776v)

Cocoliz (MH758v)

ticitl (CST39)

tlama (MH828v)

tlamatini (FCbk10f19v)

tecomatl (FCbk10f107v)