Tlaol (MH901v)

Tlaol (MH901v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlaol (perhaps “Dried Maize Kernels”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows two dried maize kernels connected by a line. They are fairly rectangular in shape. Along the right edge of each one is a darkened patch, and on the left edge is shading, intending a three-dimensionality.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See two other examples of tlaolli glyphs below. The one from MH486v has more of the appearance of feathers. It is the gloss that clarifies the intent. The one from the Codex Mendoza is a basket full of dried corn kernels. These kernels have a signature mark at the bottom center of each one. A Creative Commons photo of tlaolli shows a lighter color near the tip that might account for the marking on the Codex Mendoza rendering.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

acatha cuetlachcue

Gloss Normalization: 

Ágatha Cuetlachcue (or Ágata Cuetlachcue)

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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)
visual plural (multiples of objects)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Corn, Maize
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
rectangular
shading and parallel line hatching
three-dimensionality
Keywords: 

maíz, maize, corn, seco, desgranar, nombres de hombres

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

tlaol(li), dried maize kernels, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaolli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Maíz Desgranado, Curado, y Secado

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 901v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=875&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: 

Tlaol (MH486v)

tlaolli (Mdz10v)