tataca (Osu39r)

tataca (Osu39r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This painted iconographic scene is included here for the purpose of making comparisons with any relevant hieroglyphs. This is a small map in a bird's eye view that shows an irrigation ditch (acequia in Spanish) that was dug (tatacoc, according to the brief text, a verb in the preterit and passive) by Nahuas being directed by a colonial Spanish overlord, Juan de Cuenca, a church mayordomo of Iztapalapan.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The action of the verb, tataca, is not shown on the map, just its result. And the document protests that the work was not remunerated.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

tatacoc.

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

tatacoc

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Osuna, Codex (Osu)
Date of Manuscript: 

1551–1565

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Grammar & Linguistics: 
verb
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Colonialism (Spanish)
Labor Issues
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
gray
tan
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bird's eye view
Keywords: 

acequias, repartimiento, colonialismo, iglesia, verbo, resistencia, resistence

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

tataca, to dig in the earth, excavate, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tataca

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

escavar

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Library of Congress Online Catalog and the World Digital Library, Osuna Codex, or Painting of the Governor, Mayors, and Rulers of Mexico, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_07324/. The original is located in the Biblioteca Nacional de España.

Image Source, Rights: 

"The Library of Congress is unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection. Absent any such restrictions, these materials are free to use and reuse." But please cite the Biblioteca Nacional de España and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs if you use any of these images here or refer to the content on this page, providing the URL

Orthography: 
intrusive period
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

tataca (FCbk11f215v)