Iczocallan (CmpRG)

This place may once have been a hamlet with one or more houses in it, but as represented on the map it is no longer inhabited. The gloss for the place name appears amidst the three yucca trees and below two maguey plants. There is a church structure nearby, but it is connected with another place, not the present one (see the historical contextualizing image). The meaning of the dotted trunk of one of the three yuccas is not clear, though perhaps it indicates a different variety or age of the tree. The icçotl is described in Book 11 of the Florentine Codex; as a tree that is “thick, black. It has a blossom; it is a blossoming one. It is rough, spongy within, with a fatty material. It swells, enlarges, bursts, blossoms” (Anderson and Dibble, “Second Paragraph, which telleth of the different trees,” 110, and see the museum and rare book comparisons, below). For more information about the RG map, see Biblioteca Digital Mexicana, A.C., http://bdmx.mx/documento/mapas-relaciones-geograficas-cempoala-epazoyuca... Mundy, Barbara E., “Mapping Babel: A Sixteenth-Century Indigenous Map from Mexico,” The Appendix, 1:4 (October 2013), Mundy (1996), and Ballesteros García (2005), particularly page 65.