Atonal (MH785r)

Atonal (MH785r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Atonal is attested here as a man's name. The glyph provides what looks like a flower inside a box for the -tonal (tonalli, sun, day, solar energizing force) part of the name. The "A-" start to the name comes from the water (atl), which comes down in two streams from the boxed sun or day sign. Each stream ends with a circle with a dot in the middle, perhaps a water droplet that doubles as a jade bead. Each stream also contains black lines that suggest current (movement).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

po anthonal

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Atonal

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
visible movement
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Celestial Phenomena
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Indigenous Christianity)
Religion (Indigenous)
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
rectangular
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
boxed in
frontal view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Other Cultural Influences: 
Mixtec
Keywords: 

nombres de hombres, nombres de personas famosas, agua, día, sol, energía solar, gobernante Mixteco

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

a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
tonal(li), sun, day, personal animating force, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tonalli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Brillo de Agua (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 785r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=644&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: 
"th" for t, d, or gd
intrusive "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Atonal (MH487v)

Atonal (MH625v)

Atonal (MH554v)

Texauhqui (MH603v)

Tonal (MH784v)

Tonal (MH577v)

Atonal (MH665r)