Malinalca (Azca9) | Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs

Malinalca (Azca9)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a multicolored painting of the compound glyph for the place name and ethnicity, Malinalca.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Azcatitlan, Codex (Azca)

Date of Manuscript:

post-1550, but content about the migration from Aztlan to about 1527

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

perhaps Tlatelolco, Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

Syntax:

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

twisted or entwined

vertical, upright

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

malinal(li), twisted grasses, also a day sign, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/malinalli

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.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=9&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.

Historical Contextualizing Image: