Nicontlan (Chav6)

Nicontlan (Chav6)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Nicontlan.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Chavero, Codex (Chav)
Date of Manuscript: 

1578

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Ceramics, Pottery
Flags, banners
Names (places)
Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
frontal view
profile view
shading and parallel line hatching
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

Nicontlan-tlan
-tlan, by; among; in; to; between, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan

Image Source: 

The Codex Chavero of Huexotzinco (or Códice Chavero de Huexotzinco), https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_03246_001/?sp=6

Image Source, Rights: 

The Codex Chavero of Huexotzinco (or Códice Chavero de Huexotzinco) is held by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México. It is published online 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.”