Chalco (Mdz7v)

Chalco (Mdz7v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a multicolored painting of the simplex glyph for the place name, Chalco. It shows a chalchihuitl (jade) on a gray-purple background and inside a square.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

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 07 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 25, 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).