Tonal (MH709v)

Tonal (MH709v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tonal (“Day”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a clover-leaf type of arrangement of near circles, with squared-off straight pieces between each rounded part, and a small circle at the center.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

For similar renditions of tonalli, singly or in compounds, see some other examples, below. One will find some overlap in design between tonalli and ilhuitl, both of which can mean day.

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: 
Celestial Phenomena
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
quincunx or quatrefoil
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
frontal view
Keywords: 

quincunces, días, soles, ilhuitl, nombres de hombres

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

tonal(li), day or sun, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tonalli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Día

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 709v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=497&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: 
"ph" for f, p, or b
dropped "l"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Atonal (MH554v)

Tonal (MH528v)

Tonal (MH647v)

Tonaloxochitl (MH559v)

Xochitonal (MH775v)

Atonal (Mdz7v)

ilhuitl (Mdz19r)

ilhuitl (Osu14v)

Tonal (MH709v)