Cintlanapan (RGTyM17)

Cintlanapan (RGTyM17)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a painting of the compound hieroglyph for the place name Citlanapan (perhaps "Cornfield River"), a translation by Barbara E. Mundy, in The Mapping of New Spain (1996, 147). Two corn cobs (cintli) appear on the top of a hill or mountain (tepetl, a visual but silent locative). They lean to the left, seemingly swept by a flow of blue water (atl, or apantli). The water is wide, but it has five short splashes coming off of it, each one with a small turbinate shell at the tip.

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

Sa agustin
citlanapa

Gloss/Text Normalization:

San Agustín Cintlanapan

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Tistla y Muchitlan, RG Map of (RGTyM)

Date of Manuscript:

1582

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Tzompanco (contemporary Zumpango del Río, Guerrero), with a connection to the Diocese of Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala

Semantic Categories:

place name

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Corn, Maize

Food, Eating, Cooking

Landscape Features

Names (places)

Plants, Flora

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

blue (turquoise)

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

multidirectional

Keywords:

maize, corn, mazorcas, hills, mountains, cerros, montañas, nombres de lugares, topónimos, pueblos, estancias, place names

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cintla, cornfield, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cintla
apan(tli), canal, ditch, or river, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/apantli
-apan, on or at the waters of (a locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/apan-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Cerca del Río de las Mazorcas

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

The source of these hieroglyphs is a manuscript and map known collectively as the “Relación de Tistla y Muchitlan,” also known as the “Descripción de la Alcaldia Mayor de las Minas de Zumpango.” Apparently, these towns (today spelled Tixtla and Mochitlan) are in the modern-day state of Guerrero, but they fell under the religious jurisdiction of the Diocese of Tlaxcala. Thanks go to Octavio Márquez for his contribution of the glyph, gloss, and contextualizing images.

Image Source, Rights:

The original manuscript is hosted on line as part of the Benson Latin American Collection, The General Libraries, University of Texas at Austin, https://collections.lib.utexas.edu/catalog/utblac:fbc92b3e-bb28-4258-975.... It is open-access.

Historical Contextualizing Image: