Coyocac (Mdz38r)

Coyocac (Mdz38r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a purple and terracotta-colored painting of the simplex glyph for the place name Coyocac.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

coyucac. puo

Gloss Normalization: 

Coyocac, pueblo (Coyuca de Benítez, Guerrero)

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Appearance
Names (places)
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

coyo(tl), coyote, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coyotl
cac(tli), sandals or shoes, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cactli
coyoc(tli), hole, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coyoctli
-c (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/c

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 38 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 86 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).