Chalco (Mdz3v)

Chalco (Mdz3v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a colorful painting of the simplex glyph for the place name Chalco. It is also the sign for chalchihuitl (jade).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
homophony, rebus
phonetic dimensions
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Colors: 
green (light)
red
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
bird's eye view
segmented
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

Chalco, a place name, a municipality, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chalco

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 3 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 17 of 188.

Image Source, Rights: 

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).