Tecalco (Mdz10v)

Tecalco (Mdz10v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Tecalco has two principal components, stones (tetl) and a building, perhaps a house (calli). We also see a white foundation, which may suggest that the base was made of a different type of stone or a stuccoed surface, whereas the house was constructed of stones of the darker colors. The locative suffix (-co) is not shown specifically, but the building may serve as a semantic locative.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Joaquín Galarza argued that this standard sign for calli was half of a building. But, if we flipped the building over and joined the two pieces together, the beam across the top would not be continuous because of the roof that hangs over the end of the beam.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

tecalco. puo

Gloss Normalization: 

Tecalco, pueblo

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Syntax: 
locative (not visual, but represented semantically)
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Names (places)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
orange/terracotta
purple
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
elevation view
profile view
rectangular
right angle(s)
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
striped
wavy
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

stones, rocks, monoliths, houses, buildings, architecture piedras, rocas, monolitos, casas, edificios, arquitectura

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

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
cal(li), house or building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
-co (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 10 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 31 of 188.

Image Source, Rights: 

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).

See Also: 

tetl (Mdz48r)

calli (Mdz13r)

tetl (Mdz10v)