Tequizquiac (Mdz4v)

Tequizquiac (Mdz4v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph has two principal elements, an apantli (canal, water channel) and three pieces of tequizqui (hail or ice) immersed in the water. The trapezoid-shaped water channel has a yellow outline. The water in it is painted turquoise, with wavy black lines (some of them thick) running horizontally. The three bits of hail or ice are circular, scalloped on the edges, and painted a terracotta-color. The apantli provides for the -ac ending to the place name (combining as it does the word for water, atl, and a locative, -c).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

tequixquiac/.puo

Gloss Normalization: 

Tequizquiac, pueblo

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Water
Weather, Climate
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black
blue (turquoise)
orange/terracotta
yellow or golden
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
front to back
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tequiz(qui), something hardened, such as a piece of ice, hail, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tequizqui
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 4 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 19 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: 

Tequizquiac (Mdz29r)