Texcalco (Azca11) | Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs

Texcalco (Azca11)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing is an iconographic example for the place name Texcalco.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Azcatitlan, Codex (Azca)

Date of Manuscript:

post-1550, but content about the migration from Aztlan to about 1527

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

perhaps Tlatelolco, Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

Syntax:

locative (not visual)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Landscape Features

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

roots are visible

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

texcal(li), rocks, crags, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/texcalli
-co, (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

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.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=11&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.

Historical Contextualizing Image: