Tetzmelocan (Chav18)

Tetzmelocan (Chav18)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a brown and white painting of a compound glyph for the place name, Tetzmelocan.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

tezmeluca

Source Manuscript: 
Chavero, Codex (Chav)
Date of Manuscript: 

1578

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
phonetic dimensions
place name
Syntax: 
locative (not visual)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Feathers
Landscape Features
Names (places)
Plants, Flora
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Colors: 
brown
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
frontal view
profile view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
3
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
multidirectional
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tetzme(tl), small shrub with soft roots, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tetzmetl
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0
me(tl), maguey, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/metl
can (locative suffix), where, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/can-0

Image Source: 

The Codex Chavero of Huexotzinco (or Códice Chavero de Huexotzinco), https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_03246_001/?sp=18

Image Source, Rights: 

The Codex Chavero of Huexotzinco (or Códice Chavero de Huexotzinco) is held by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México. It is published online 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.”

Historical Contextualizing Image: