Tecozauhtlan (Mdz31r)

Tecozauhtlan (Mdz31r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Tecozauhtlan has as its focus a stone, tetl, that has turned yellow (cozahui). Surrounding the yellow stone are perhaps some smaller stones, sand, and dirt, also yellow, which doubles as the word for yellow ochre (tecozahuitl). The locative -tlan is only implied, not shown visually, although the dirt or earth would have a tlalli phonetic value, which is close. See also our Tlalcozauhtitlan compound glyph.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tecoçauhtlā, 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)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Color names

Landscape Features

Names (places)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

wavy

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

outward (from inside out)

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
cozahui, to turn yellow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozahui
-tlan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 31 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 72 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).