Contla (MH526v)
This simplex glyph of a ceramic jug (comitl) stands for the place name Contla, a place with abundant ceramic jugs or pots. The suffix -tla (place of abundance) is not shown visually. The dark shading on the right side of the jug gives it three-dimensionality, which suggests a stylistic European influence.
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Notice how most pots in this collection do not have shading. Several examples of pots appear below.
The contextualizing image shows that this place is referred to as a barrio in Spanish.
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1560
Stephanie Wood
ceramics, pottery, cerámica, barro, jarras, jarros, cantaros, ollas
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com(itl), ceramic jug, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/comitl
-tla, place of abundance of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tla-1
Contla (Lugar de Muchas Jarras)
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 526v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=132&st=image.
This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).
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