Chinampan (T1735:2:109)

Chinampan (T1735:2:109)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for the place name Chinampan shows a chinampa (Spanish), aka the chinamitl), in Nahuatl. It features the technology or construction of the agricultural parcel that involved piling lake-bottom mud up for planting. To keep the mud in place, these structures were created. This glyph has a horizontal fence along the top. Small dots or circles around the perimeter of two rectangles that are adjoining may indicate posts that have been sunk into the lake bottom. The wooden structures are brown, and the wet mud is sort of a turquoise blue.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Chinampas were often long narrow parcels. So, this glyph may providing a bird's eye view, showing two long parcels. The fence at the top, however, appears to be an elevation view.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

chināpā

Gloss Normalization: 

chinanpan, or chinampan, chinampa, etc.

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
AGN Tierras 1735, exp. 2, f. 109
Date of Manuscript: 

1566

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Coyoacan

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Dirt, Sand, Soil
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Xitlali Torres

Colors: 
blue (turquoise)
brown
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bird's eye view
Keywords: 

chinanpan, chinampa, agricultura

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

chinami(tl), reed/cane enclosure, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chinamitl
chinampan, an agricultural strip, often involving a lake mud construction, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chinampan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

el chinampa

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Single-page codex, Archivo General de la Nación, México, Ramo de Tierras, vol. 1735, exp. 2, fol. 109.  

Image Source, Rights: 

The Archivo General de la Nación (AGN), México, holds the original manuscript. This image is published here under a Creative Commons license, asking that you cite the AGN and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.

See Also: 

chinamitl (Mdz42r)