Chimalco (Mdz23r)
This compound glyph for the place name Chimalco has two principal features. One is a shield (chimalli) in the form of two concentric circles separated by white, and the inner circle painted yellow. The other element is a vertical flag/banner (pantli), all white. The locative suffix (-co) is not show visually.
Stephanie Wood
The banner is somewhat puzzling. It can provide the phonetic element for the locative suffix -pan (in or on), but this place name does not end in -pan. Berdan and Anawalt remind us that Clark (1938 2:28) suggested this glyph refers to Panchimalco, pointing to a Pipil (Nahua) place in El Salvador. But there is a Panchimalco in the Cuernavaca region as the glyph contributed by Robert Haskett shows (below). That said, there is also a Chimalco that is part of the municipality of Chimalhuacan in the state of Mexico today.
Stephanie Wood
chimalco. puo
Chimalco, pueblo
Stephanie Wood
c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest
Stephanie Wood
If this glyph is really for Panchimalco, then the reading should be outward.
shields, rodelas, escudos, armas, flags, banderas
Codex Mendoza, folio 23 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 56 of 188.
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).
