Cuauhtla (Azca11)

Cuauhtla (Azca11)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This colorful painting of the place name, Cuauhtla ("Place of Many Trees"), shows an ambivalence between using blue or green paint, the left half being blue and the right half green. The tress are tall, upright, and have visible roots.

Gloss Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Azcatitlan, Codex (Azca)
Date of Manuscript: 

post-1550, but content about the migration from Aztlan to about 1527

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

perhaps Tlatelolco, Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Landscape Features
Names (places)
Plants, Flora
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
green (light)
tan
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
roots are visible
shading and parallel line hatching
three-dimensionality
vertical, upright
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

cuahui(tl), trees, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuahuitl
-tla, place of abundance of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tla-1

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Lugar de Muchos Árboles

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

The Codex Azcatitlan is also known as the Histoire mexicaine, [Manuscrit] Mexicain 59–64. It is housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and hosted on line by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=11&st=image

Image Source, Rights: 

The Library of Congress is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.” But please cite Bibliothèque Nationale de France and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.

Historical Contextualizing Image: