Iztacalcan (Azca18)

Iztacalcan (Azca18)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This painted black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Iztacalcan (perhaps “Place of the Salt House”) shows a circle with dots inside and a red border, seeming representing salt (iztatl). Next to the circle is a building (calli) where salt was probably made from salt water. Water (atl) comes out of the building. This could be just a semantic indicator for the salt making process, but it could also be a phonetic complement to the “-atl” of iztatl.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See the other two compound glyphs for Iztacalco (a similar place name) below. They show somewhat more of the processing of salt using water and heat (indicated by smoke curls coming out of the buildings).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Yztacallcan

Gloss Normalization:

Iztacalcan

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Azcatitlan, Codex (Azca)

Date of Manuscript:

post-1550, possibly from the early seventeenth century.

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

perhaps Tlatelolco, Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

phonetic possibilities

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Food, Eating, Cooking

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

left to right

Keywords:

sal, casas, edificios, arquitectura, pueblos, topónimos, nombres de lugares

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

izta(tl), salt, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/
cal(li), house or building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
-can (locative suffix), where, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/can-2

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

En la Casa Donde Fabrican Sal

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

The Codex Azcatitlan is also known as the Histoire mexicaine, [Manuscrit] Mexicain 59–64. It is housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and hosted on line by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=18&st=image

Image Source, Rights:

The Library of Congress is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.” But please cite Bibliothèque Nationale de France and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.

Orthography:

"ll" for l

"y" for i

Historical Contextualizing Image: