Tetzapotitlan (Mdz10v)

Tetzapotitlan (Mdz10v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Tetzapotitlan shows a tzapotl tree and a stone (tetl). The role of the stone appears to be phonetic, but perhaps it could refer to an especially hard tzapotl fruit. The locative suffix (-tlan) is not shown specifically in a visual way (such as with tlantli playing a phonetic role), but the local landscape shown in the compound may serve as a semantic locative.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

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)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Names (places)

Plants, Flora

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Shapes and Perspectives:

tripartite

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

zapote trees, zapotes, stones, piedras

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

-tlan (locative suffix), place, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 10 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 31 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).