iztac (Mdz15v)

iztac (Mdz15v)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element for the color white (iztac) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Iztac Tlalocan. A hill or mountain (tepetl), silent here but serving as a locative and what Gordon Whittaker, 2021, 75, would call a semantic complement, provides the host for the color. The top of the hill is missing because of the removal of the Tlaloc image that was at the top of the hill in the original compound.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
adjective
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Color names
Landscape Features
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
red
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bell-shaped (upright)
Keywords: 

white, colors

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

iztac, white, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.orgi/content/iztac

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

white

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

el blanco

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 15 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 41 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: 

Iztactlalocan (Mdz15v)

Iztactlalocan (Mdz13v)

Iztacalco (Mdz17v)