Tlamauhcatl (MH712r)

Tlamauhcatl (MH712r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity, Tlamauhcatl (“Person from Tlamauhco”) is attested here as referring to a man. The glyph shows a thick vertical line on the right cheek of the tribute payer himself. His head is shown in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See below for another example of Tlamauhcatl and two glyphs for the town, Tlamauhco. Most glyphs relating to Tlamauh (also spelled Tlamao) show the starry or stellar eye, the pre-contact style of a human eye that could double as a star in the sky. Regarding the thick vertical line on the cheek, in some glyphs one or two vertical stripes on a cheek can be a phonetic syllable for “hua” (possession), from huahuana, to make stripes. See the compound glyph for the place name, Acalhuacan, below. The Cihuateotl glyph, also below, shows how just one stripe can also emphasize the “hua” of, in this case, cihuatl.

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, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Education, Knowledge, Wisdom

Face Paint or Tattoos

Gender (male)

Names (men's, but w/ female dimension)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

tlamao, teuctli, tecuhtli, conocimiento, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlamauh, wise man, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamauh
-catl, affiliation suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(una persona de Tlamauhco)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 712r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=502&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:

"o" for u or uh

Historical Contextualizing Image: