Itzmiquilpan (Mdz27r)
This is a multicolored painting of the compound glyph for the place name Itzmiquilpan. It consists of three elements. At the top is a vertical itztli (obsidian blade, which also looks much like a tecpatl, flint knife). It is red at the top and white at the bottom, and the division between the two colors is on an angle. Below the blade is a curving green plant (quilitl) with four leaves. Finally, the plant rests on a horizontal, rectangular, segmented agricultural field (milli) that is alternating purple and orange or terracotta in color. The field also has dots and backward C-shapes that seem to suggest cultivation.
Stephanie Wood
The milli may be a phonetic indicator for the -mi- part of the place name, or it may be a semantic indicator that the quilitl is growing in a field.
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yzmiquilpā. puo
Itzmiquilpan, pueblo (or Itzmilquilpan?)
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c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest
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The reading goes down from the top, and then back up.
obsidian blades, flint knife, flint knives, flints, herbs, agricultural field, land

itz(tli), obsidian blade, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/itztli
quil(itl), edible herbs and vegetables, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quilitl
mil(li), agricultural field, kitchen garden, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content, milli
Codex Mendoza, folio 27 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 64 of 188.
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).