Temazcaltitlan (Azca18)

Temazcaltitlan (Azca18)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound place name for Temazcaltitlan shows a frontal view of a temazcalli with an arched doorway, two round windows, and an added structure on the viewer’s right that was the location of some of the processing of the salt. This would typically involve a fire, but no fire or smoke appears in this example. To point to the fact that this is a place name for a socio-political unit, the temazcalli is under the cover of a high, rectangular roof with European-style (Roman or Tuscan) columns. This may serve as a visual for the locative suffix (-titlan).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See examples of other temazcalli glyphs (below), as some of them show the annex emitting smoke.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

temascaltitlan

Gloss Normalization:

Temazcaltitlan

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Azcatitlan, Codex (Azca)

Date of Manuscript:

post-1550, possibly from the early seventeenth century.

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

perhaps Tlatelolco, Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

frontal view

rectangular

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

baños, temascales, arquitectura, columnas, pueblos, topónimos, nombres de lugares

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

temazcal(li), a sweathouse or steambath, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temazcalli
-titlan (locative suffix), next to, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/titlan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Cerca del Temazcal

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

The Codex Azcatitlan is also known as the Histoire mexicaine, [Manuscrit] Mexicain 59–64. It is housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and hosted on line by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=18&st=image

Image Source, Rights:

The Library of Congress is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.” But please cite Bibliothèque Nationale de France and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.

Orthography:

"s" for z

Historical Contextualizing Image: