Tianquiztenco (Chav5)

Tianquiztenco (Chav5)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Tianquiztenco (“At the Edge of the Market") shows a bird's eye view of a marketplace (tianquiztli, or tianguis in contemporary Spanish). Six footprints pointing various directions suggest people's movement through the tianquiztli and provide the phonetic value of quiza, to emerge, for the -quiz ending. The edge has a patterned border. There is nothing specific to represent the locative suffix (-co), "at," but the perhaps the occupied space is a semantic indicator for the locative.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The top of this tianquiztli glyph is slightly distorted because of its location next to the binding of the manuscript.

Footprint glyphs have a wide range of translations. In this collection, so far, we can attest to yauh, xo, pano, -pan, paina, temo, nemi, quetza, otli, iyaquic hualiloti, huallauh, tepal, tetepotztoca, totoco, otlatoca, -tihui, and the vowel "o." Other research (Herrera et al, 2005, 64) points to additional terms, including: choloa, tlaloa, totoyoa, eco, aci, quiza, maxalihui, centlacxitl, and xocpalli.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Tianguistengo

Gloss Normalization:

Tianquiztenco

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Chavero, Codex (Chav)

Date of Manuscript:

1578

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

visible movement

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Footprint(s), human

Movement

Names (places)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

dotted, granular, textured

bird's eye view

Keywords:

mercados, markets, tianguis, movimiento, huellas, círculos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tianquiz(tli), market, or marketplace, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tianquiztli
ten(tli), edge, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tentli
-co (locative suffix), at, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

A la Orilla del Tianguis

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanaie Wood

Image Source:

The Codex Chavero of Huexotzinco (or Códice Chavero de Huexotzinco), https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_03246_001/?sp=5

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: