Teloloapan (Mdz37r)

Teloloapan (Mdz37r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph with a hard stone pellet or a ball (telolotli) in front of a water channel (apantli) stands for the place name Teloloapan, a town in what is now the state of Guerrero. The rubber(?) ball is black and the water in the canal is turquoise blue with wavy black lines of varying thickness, showing movement or currents. White turbinate shells and white water droplets/beads splash off the top of the water. The canal has a liner that is green with yellow hash marks and, inside that, another liner of just yellow.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Imbedded in the word telolotli is the shorter word tetl (stone) and ololoa (to wrap, roll, or make something into a ball). References to rolling and balls may further indicate that olli (rubber, ball) is at the heart of ololoa. Certainly, the round black object that is supposed to be the pellet in the water bears a striking resemblance to the olli of other glyphs.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

teloloapan. pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Teloloapan, pueblo (today, in the state of Guerrero)

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:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Names (places)

Rubber

Shells

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

cross-sectioned object

trapezoidal

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

front to back

Keywords:

balls, stones, canals, water, shells, pelotas, agua, canales

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 37 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 84 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).