cacallotl (CQ)

cacallotl (CQ)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This glyphic element, cacallotl (perhaps nut tree or nut shell) has been carved from the compound place name Cacallotepec (perhaps "Nut Tree Hill"). It is a tree that, in the original compound, was standing in front of a hill or mountain. It has a green trunk that bifurcates into two groups of three fronds each. These are left uncolored.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

We are giving this noun the double "l," as it does not appear to have anything to do with ravens (cacalotl. Given that a nut shell can be a cacallotl, with the double "l," and the visual is a tree, we are leaning toward the interpretation of a nut tree.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

cacalotepec

Gloss Normalization: 

Cacalotepec

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Quetzalecatzin, Codex (CQ)
Date of Manuscript: 

covers ruling men and women of Tecamachalco through 1593

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

southern Puebla state

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wod

Colors: 
green (dark)
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bifurcated
frontal view
tripartite
vertical, upright
Other Cultural Influences: 
Mixtec
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

cacallo(tl), a nut shell, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cacallotl
tepe(tl), hill/mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-tepec (locative suffix), on the hill/mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepec

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Un árbol de nueces?

Image Source: 

The Codex Quetzalecatzin, aka Mapa de Ecatepec-Huitziltepec, Codex Ehecatepec-Huitziltepec, or Charles Ratton Codex. Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017590521/

Image Source, Rights: 

The Library of Congress, current custodian of this pictorial Mexican manuscript, hosts a digital version online. It is not copyright protected.

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Cacallotepec (CQ)