Atotoniltonco (Osu36r)

Atotoniltonco (Osu36r)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This painted compound Nahuatl hieroglyph represents the place name Atotoniltonco, perhaps "At the Little Hot Springs." It shows a green, bell-shaped hill (a visual locative, a tepetl, but also possibly a reference to an altepetl given the presence of the red and yellow horizontal lines that point to the spot for a natural spring). On top of this hill or mountain is a pottery bowl with flames underneath it and water inside it. The flames and the pottery bowl are both a tan color. The water has three splashes coming up into the air, each one with a line of current and a small circle at the top representing a droplet or a bead. The fire suggests that the water is hot. The diminutive (-tontli) part of the name is not clearly shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Perhaps the size of the hot springs is not the point, but rather this is a spin-off community that takes its name from Atotonilco, much in the way the compound suffix -tzinco can indicate that.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

Atotoniltonco

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:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

cerro, cerros, montaña, montañas, agua, hervir, cuenco, cuencos, tazón, tazones, barro, fuego, llamas, nombres de lugares, topónimos, place names

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
atotonil(li), hot water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atotonilli
totonil(li), something heated, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/totonilli
totonil(ia), to heat something, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/totonilia
-tontli, little, small, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tontli
-co (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, "En las Pequeñas Aguas Termales"

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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