Milpolco (T1735:2:109)

Milpolco (T1735:2:109)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Milpolco ("In the Miserable Cornfield") consists of three elements. At the top is a frontal view of a horizontal arrow (mitl), painted green, and pointing toward the viewer's right. The arrow is playing a phonetic role, indicating that the place name begins with "Mi-". Below the arrow, and connected to it by a small line, is a green, rectangular agricultural field (milli) with one row of U-shapes turned on their sides; this is typically a sign that the field is cultivated. Finally, at the bottom of this compound is a small pot or jug, probably ceramic, called a (comitl); this provides a phonetic indicator for the locative suffix (-co), at or on.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The "-pol-" part of the place name could be reflected semantically in the way the field has only one row of symbols suggesting cultivation. Or perhaps the ceramic pot used for the locative suffix is small and miserable.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

milpulco

Gloss Normalization:

Milpolco

Source Manuscript:

AGN Tierras 1735, exp. 2, f. 109

Date of Manuscript:

1566

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Coyoacan

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

sementeras, parcels, parcelas, agricultura, milpa, cerámica, barro, cántaros, ollas, flechas, arrows

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

mil(li), agricultural field, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/milli
-pol-, miserable or wretched, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pol
-co (locative suffix), in or at, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

En la Milpa Miserable

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

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.