Tecozauhtlan (Mdz16r)

Tecozauhtlan (Mdz16r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Tecozauhtlan has two main components. One is a horizontal stone (tetl) with the usual alternating wavy lines of purple and terracotta orange and the curling ends. The other is a circle painted yellow with black dots and eight small circles mixed in among the dots, a cozauhqui (something turned yellow).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The verb cozahui) means to turn yellow, so a stone that has turned yellow can be the tecozauhuitl, yellow ochre, which is the ultimate reading for the compound glyph. The locative suffix, -tlan, is either not shown visually (usually drawn from the phonetic value provided by tlantli, teeth), or the locative is implied in the rocky soil.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tecoçauhtla. pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Tecozauhtlan, 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)

verb

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Color names

Names (places)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

orange/terracotta

purple (light)/lavender

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

wavy

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tecozahui(tl), yellow ochre, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecozahuitl
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
cozahui, to turn yellow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozahui
cozauhqui, something yellow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozauhqui
-tlan (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 16 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 42 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).