Comitlan (Mdz13v)

Comitlan (Mdz13v)
Simplex Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

The simplex glyph for comitl) (ceramic pot or vessel) stands for the full place name Comitlan. This jug (comitl) is tall and round, terracotta-colored, with a small handle on the right and the left, and a flared neck. The -tlan (locative suffix) is not represented visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

comitlan, puo

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Comitlan, pueblo

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Syntax: 
locative (not visual)
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Containers, Dishes, Eating Utensils
Food, Eating, Cooking
Names (places)
Pottery, Earthenware
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
V-shapes, or wedge
Keywords: 

cantaros, barro, nombres de lugares, topónimos, place names, earthenware, ceramic, ceramics, cerámicas, jug, pot, olla, jarra, jarro, vessel, vessels, vasija de cerámica, cántaro, cántaros, xoctli, xoctepi, huicolli, atlacuihuani, tecomitl, tecontontli, apilolli

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

comi(tl), pottery vessel, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/comitl
-tlan (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 13 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 37 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).

See Also: 

apilolli (FCbk6f192v)

pahuaxoni (FCbk11f139r)

comitl (TK214v)