Itzteyocan (Mdz17v)

Itzteyocan (Mdz17v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a black, purple, and orange drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Itzteyocan.

Added Analysis:

This compound glyph for the place name Itzteyocan includes an obsidian blade (itztli) and, below that, a stone (tetl). Unlike some other representations of obsidian blades, this one has a large piece of obsidian at its base. The locative suffix (-can) is not shown visually.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

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)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black

orange/terracotta

purple

Shapes and Perspectives:

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

striped

wavy

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

blades, knives, stones, rocks, monoliths, piedras, rocas, monolitos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

itz(tli), obsidian blade, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/itztli
te(tl), stone or rock, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
-yo(tl), having that characteristic or quality/inalienable possession, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yotl
-can (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/can-2

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 17 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 45 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).