Azcapotzalca (Azca16)

Azcapotzalca (Azca16)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the ethnicity Azcapotzalca, the people of Azcapotzalco, doubles as the place name. It shows a bird’s eye view of a circular group of what may be sand particles, such as what might be made at the site of an ant (azcatl) hill or mound (potzalli). Note how the ant that appears here has what appear to be eight legs. This is also the case in Image 7 of the Azcatitlan Codex.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Part of this glyph was obscured by nearby objects, so we have recreated part of the sandy mound areas. Note how the glyph for Azcapotzalca (the people) is similar in content and design to the place name, Azcapotzalco (below).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

ascapotzalca

Gloss Normalization:

Azcapotzalca

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Azcatitlan, Codex (Azca)

Date of Manuscript:

post-1550, possibly from the early seventeenth century.

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

perhaps Tlatelolco, Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals: Insects & Bugs

Landscape Features

Names (places)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity, Othering

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives:

bird's eye view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

outward (from inside out)

Keywords:

hormigas, montículos, ethnicidades

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

azca(tl), ant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/azcatl
potzal(li), mound, hil), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/potzalli
-ca and -catl (ethnic suffixes, plural and singular), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

gente de Azcapotzalco

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

The Codex Azcatitlan is also known as the Histoire mexicaine, [Manuscrit] Mexicain 59–64. It is housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and hosted on line by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=16&st=image

Image Source, Rights:

The Library of Congress is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.” But please cite Bibliothèque Nationale de France and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.

Orthography:

"s" for z

Historical Contextualizing Image: