Amiztlato (MH761r)

Amiztlato (MH761r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a black-line compound glyph for a man's personal name Amiztlato (Amiztlahto, with the glottal stop), referring to "Leader among Hunters."

Description, 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: 
Flowers
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

nombres de hombres, hablar, agua, pumas, nopalli, tunas, flores

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

Amiztlato, a leader among hunters, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/amiztlato
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
miz(tli), wildcat, mountain lion, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/miztli
tlatoa or tlahtoa with the glottal stop, to speak, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatoa

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 761r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=600&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: 

Amiztlato (MH643v)

Amiztlato (MH486r)