Tamazollan (Mdz43r)

Tamazollan (Mdz43r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This simplex glyph for the place name Tamazollan is a toad (tamazolin). It is painted turquoise blue and has small circular lumps all over its body. It is shown in profile, facing to the viewer's right. The locative suffix (-tlan, which goes to -lan when combined with a stem ending in "l") is not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tamaçolan.pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Tamazollan, pueblo

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Syntax:

locative (not visual)

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Names (places)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

blue (turquoise)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

toads, sapos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tamazol(in), toad, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tamazolin
-tlan (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 43 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 96 of 188.

Image Source, Rights:

Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)