Ixquemecan (Mdz21v)

Ixquemecan (Mdz21v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Ixquemecan consists of two principal components, a ritual bib (quemitl) that is located over the eyes (ixtli) of a human head. The quemitl, which could be cloth or paper, is trapezoidal and entirely white. The haircut and style of the human hair suggests a male. His hair is dark and straight, with bangs and the rest of his hair falling just below his ears. His skin is terracotta-colored.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The attention to the eyes is meant to provide the phonetic value for a ixquemitl) (a garment, sometimes a small shift or skirt given to a baby girl), if it is not a quemitl) (a ritual vestment or bib-like garment). The ixquemitl or quemitl covering the eyes may be made of cloth or paper. It does not have the small, vertical, black hash marks along the bottom of the rectangle or trapezoid, such as we see with the quemitl) of Tequemecan (below, right).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

yxquemecā. pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Ixquemecan, pueblo

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:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Hair (human or animal)

Names (places)

Paper

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

orange/terracotta

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

trapezoidal

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

back to front

Keywords:

ritual vestments, ritual bibs, garments, eyes, face, cloth

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

ixquemi(tl), a small shift or skirt for a baby girl, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixquemitl
ix(tli), eyes, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtli
quemi(tl), bib-like garment, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quemitl
-can (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/can-2

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 21 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 53 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).