Apazco (Osu35v)

Apazco (Osu35v)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This painting of the compound Nahuatl glyph for the place name (tepetl) with the horizontal yellow and red slits at the bottom where spring water (atl) could emerge. This green bell-shaped hill or mountain feature might also be interpreted here as an altepetl, a socio-political unit. The other element of this compound is a cup or bowl (apaztli) with a small round handle on the left and another one on the right, both halfway down toward the base. The cup is a terracotta color. The locative suffix (-co) may be implied in the hill.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The contextualizing image shows that this town (probably an altepetl) was ruled by a teuctli or tecuhtli, which is shown as the head garment a ruler would wear along with the speech scrolls which indicate that he was a tlatoani (or tlahtoani, with the glottal stop). The gloss add the information that this town fell under the domain of an encomendero, a Spanish colonial overlord who was given rights to extract tributes in kind and in labor from this community.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

Apazco, çe
comendero

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Apazco, ce [en]comendero

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Osuna, Codex (Osu)
Date of Manuscript: 

1551–1565

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Containers, Dishes, Eating Utensils
Landscape Features
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Names (places)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
green (light)
orange/terracotta
red
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

tazas, cuencos, vasijas, recipiente, pueblos, topónimos, nombres de lugares, topónimos, place names

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

apaz(tli), earthen bowl, cup, container, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/apaztli
-co (locative suffix), in, on, or at, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

En el Cuenco, or En el Apaxtle

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Library of Congress Online Catalog and the World Digital Library, Osuna Codex, or Painting of the Governor, Mayors, and Rulers of Mexico, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_07324/. The original is located in the Biblioteca Nacional de España.

Image Source, Rights: 

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Orthography: 
"çe" for ce
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Apazco (Azca14)