Pantitlan (Azca15)

Pantitlan (Azca15)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This painted black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Pantitlan (“Near the Flag” or “Near the Flags’) shows a frontal view of a smooth white hill or mountain (tepetl) with three stones (tetl) distributed along its crest. These stones all have a stripe through the middle, and they are all painted red. The highest stone has a vertical flag on a flagpole emerging from it. The pole is red, while the flag, flying to the left, is painted gold or yellow. The flag has three horizontal lines that divide it into four segments. The flag pole has a round object at the top, and above that is what appears to be a red fan base with perhaps three golden feathers rising from it.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The hill or mountain that provides the key landscape element for this settlement is unusual in not having curling rocky outcroppings, but rather, relatively small round stones distributed along the top of it.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Pantitla

Gloss Normalization: 

Pantitlan

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Azcatitlan, Codex (Azca)
Date of Manuscript: 

post-1550, possibly from the early seventeenth century.

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

perhaps Tlatelolco, Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flags, banners
Landscape Features
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
red
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
segmented
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

banderas, piedras, montañas, cerros, pueblos, topónimos, nombres de lugares

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

pan(itl) or pam(itl), flag, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl
-titlan, (locative suffix), next to, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/titlan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Cerca de la Bandera, o Cerca de las Banderas

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=15&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: 
See Also: 

Pantecatl (MH653r)