Malinalocan (T1735:2:109)

Malinalocan (T1735:2:109)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a painting of the compound glyph for the place name, Malinalocan. The twisted grass (malinalli) sits on a hill or mountain, which can stand as a semantic indicator for the place (ocan, where).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
AGN Tierras 1735, exp. 2, f. 109
Date of Manuscript: 

1566

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Coyoacan

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Names (places)
Plants, Flora
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Colors: 
green (dark)
green (light)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
tied, bound, or bundled
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

malinal(li), tall grass, twisted grass, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/malinalli
ocan, where, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ocan-0
-can (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/can-2

Image Source: 

Single-page codex, Archivo General de la Nación, México, Ramo de Tierras, vol. 1735, exp. 2, fol. 109.

Image Source, Rights: 

The Archivo General de la Nación (AGN), México, holds the original manuscript. This image is published here under a Creative Commons license, asking that you cite the AGN and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.