Tetlapanaloyan (Mdz29r)

Tetlapanaloyan (Mdz29r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Tetlapanaloyan includes stones (tetl) and the verb to split something open or break something (tlapana). One stone is being split open by another one that is held by a (left) hand (attached to a full arm). The stones or rocks are purple and terracotta/orange with alternating wavy lines and curling ends. The hand and arm are also terracotta in color. The locative suffix -yan is not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The impersonal -lo- refers to the rock that is receiving the action of the verb without specifying by whom. The locative suffix (-yan) is one that attaches to verbs and indicates customary action. [Frances Karttunen, "Critique of glyph catalogue in Berdan and Anawalt edition of Codex Mendoza," unpublished manuscript.] So, this would be a place where the stones or rocks are regularly crushed or broken.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tetlapanaloyā. pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Tetlapanaloyan, 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)

noun(s)

verb

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

orange/terracotta

purple

Shapes and Perspectives:

horizontal

oval (see also leaf shaped)

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

wavy

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

stones, rocks, piedras, quebrar, break, smash

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

te(tl), stone(s) or rock(s), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
tlapana, to break open, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlapana
-yan (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yan

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 29 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 68 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).