Tezcacoacatl (Mdz65r)

Tezcacoacatl (Mdz65r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for title, Tezcacoacatl (with elements of "mirror" and "serpent") shows a serpents head and part of its body. The head is shownn profile, facing toward the viewer's right. Its eye is open and its bifurcated tongue is protruding. Its head is gray, its underbelly white, and its back is black with small red concentric circles.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The designs on the snakes back serve as a phonetic indicator for the tezcatl (mirror) element of the compound.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tezcacoacatl.

Gloss Normalization:

Tezcacoacatl

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

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

bifurcated

curving, curvy, curved

facing right

profile view

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

serpents, snakes, víboras, espejos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tezca(tl), mirror, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tezcatl
coa(tl), snake/serpent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coatl
-ca(tl), a suffix indicating an affiliation or a title, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 65 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 140 of 188.

Image Source, Rights:

Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)