Aochpanco (Mdz20v)

Aochpanco (Mdz20v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Aochpanco consists of three visuals: 1) at the bottom, a horizontal flow of water (atl) or ātl), showing vowel length) with the usual turquoise blue color, lines of current, and droplets/beads and turbinate shells splashing off the flow; 2) above that a horizontal rectangle colored terracotta with two black footprints heading to the viewer's right, typically representing a road (otli but here apparently a highway ochpantli; and 3) an upright white banner/flag (panitl). The locative suffix -co is not shown visually, but it is represented by the landscape elements.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

As Frances Karttunen points out, the banner can have the sound -pām or -pān (from pāmitl or pānitl) and still be used to represent the locative -pan (which has a short vowel). And she notes "this is the inverse of using -tlan with a short vowel to represent locative -tlān with a long one."

Footprint glyphs have a wide range of translations. In this collection, so far, we can attest to yauh, xo, pano, -pan, paina, temo, nemi, quetza, otli, iyaquic hualiloti, huallauh, tetepotztoca, totoco, -tihui, and the vowel "o." Other research (Herrera et al, 2005, 64) points to additional terms, including: choloa, tlaloa, totoyoa, eco, aci, quiza, maxalihui, centlacxitl, and xocpalli.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood, with content from Frances Karttunen (unpublished manuscript, used here with her permission)

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

locative (not visual, but represented semantically)

pa/pan/pal syllable from panitl

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

vertical, upright

wavy

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

flags, banderas, agua, carreteras, caminos, huellas de pie

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

a(tl) or ā(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
ochpan(tli) or ochpāan(tli), highway, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ochpantli
pān(itl) or pām(itl), banner or flag, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl
-pan (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan
-co (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Karttunen’s Interpretation:

"On the Water Highway" -- Karttunen supports Berdan & Anawalt's translation of this glyph. {Frances Karttunen, unpublished manuscript, used here with her permission.]

Additional Scholars' Interpretations:

"On the Water Highway" (Berdan and Anawalt, 1992, vol. 1, p. 171)

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

"En la Carretera del Agua"

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 20 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 51 of 188.

Image Source, Rights:

Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)