Chalco (TR34r)

Chalco (TR34r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a multicolored painting of a compound glyph for the place name, Chalco.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Telleriano-Remensis, Codex (TR)
Date of Manuscript: 

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
place name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
locative (visual not silent)
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Ceramics, Pottery
Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment
Names (places)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Turquoise or Jade
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
blue (turquoise)
green (light)
red
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bell-shaped (upright)
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
tied, bound, or bundled
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
left to right
outward (from inside out)
Keywords: 

jewelry, joyas, cuentas, beads, cerámica, elemento fonético, montañas, cerros, mountains, hills

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

chalchihu(itl), jade, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chalchihuitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Chalco (nombre de lugar)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 34 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f93.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

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Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Chalco (Mdz6r)

Chalco (Mdz41r)