Iztacalco (Osu11r)

Iztacalco (Osu11r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a compound glyph for an estancia (small settlement or stock-raising estate) called Iztacalco (“At the Salt Making Structure”), which is found in the Codex Osuna on folio 11 recto (or Image 24). The glyph consists of a frontal view of a white building (calli) with a terracotta-colored wooden beam-lined entry way. The entrance is dark gray and dotted. The top and center of the building has a missing curved section that is dark gray, dotted, and has five smoke curls rising up from it. The dots are the sign for salt (iztatl), as shown in the element from the Codex Mendoza on folio 17v (below). The locative suffix (-co, at or in) is not shown visually, although it could be inherent in the representation of the site

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

There is a pueblo called Iztacalco in the Codex Mendoza, shown below, and it has a very similar look to this glyph, but this glyph from the Codex Osuna serves as the name of an estancia, that is said to belong to the altepetl (larger socio-political unit). This is actually explained on folio 11 recto.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Osuna, Codex (Osu)

Date of Manuscript:

1551–1565

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Food, Eating, Cooking

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

dotted, granular, textured

frontal view

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

volute(s)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

outward (from inside out)

Keywords:

sal, tecnología, arquitectura, fuego, humo, nombres de lugares

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

izta(tl), salt, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/iztatl
cal(li), house or building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
-co (locative suffix) in or at, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

en la casa donde fabrican sal

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Library of Congress Online Catalog and the World Digital Library, Osuna Codex, or Painting of the Governor, Mayors, and Rulers of Mexico (Pintura del Gobernador, Alcaldes y Regidores de México), https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_07324/. The original is located in the Biblioteca Nacional de España.

Image Source, Rights:

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