Huixachtitlan (TR28r)

Huixachtitlan (TR28r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Huixachtitlan features a tropical tree of the acacia or mimosa family, called the huixachin. It has eight visible fronds, five lacy and three more substantial. They are painted green. The trunk is a tan color. It has two small stumps (seemingly from branches that have been cut off) on either side of the trunk about half way up from the white, exposed roots. The tree is in front of an upright, bell-shaped, green hill or mountain (tepetl) which serves as a semantic (not phonetic) locative (-tepec, on or at the hill of). The hill or mountain has the usual curving rocky outcroppings on its slopes and a horizontal white band at its base.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

vixatitan

Gloss Normalization: 

Huixachtitlan

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Date of Manuscript: 

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
Keywords: 

trees, árboles

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

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 28 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f81.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

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