Itzmiquilpan (Mdz27r)

Itzmiquilpan (Mdz27r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a multicolored painting of the compound glyph for the place name Itzmiquilpan.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

yzmiquilpā. puo

Gloss Normalization: 

Itzmiquilpan, pueblo (or Itzmilquilpan?)

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: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stockraising
Food, Eating, Cooking
Land Parcels, Use, Issues
Names (places)
Plants, Flora
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
orange/terracotta
purple
Shapes and Perspectives: 
dotted, granular, textured
bird's eye view
segmented
U-shapes (any direction)
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
3
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
upward
multidirectional
Reading Order, Notes: 

The reading goes down from the top, and then back up.

Keywords: 

obsidian blades, flint knife, flint knives, flints, herbs, agricultural field, land

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

itz(tli), obsidian blade, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/itztli
quili(tl), edible herbs and vegetables, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quilitl
mil(li), agricultural field, kitchen garden, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content, milli

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 27 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 64 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).

See Also: 

itztli (Mdz42r)

itztli (Mdz16r)

milli (Mdz6r)

quilitl (Mdz30r)

milli (Mdz27r)

quilitl (Mdz27r)

itztli (Mdz27r)