Tianquiztenco (MH708v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the place name Tianquiztenco (“At the Edge of the Market”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a large circle and an inner circle, each one with a border. The border of the inner circle is yellow. Inside this inner circle are nine left and right footprints, suggesting human movement through the space, typical of a marketplace (tianquiztli). The outermost border is hatched. The space between the inner and outer circles is divided into ten segments, and in each segment is a small yellow circle surrounded by dots. These look something like little suns.
Stephanie Wood
Comparing this market with other examples, one can see the attention to detail. This detail may be telling of the way Nahuas saw the marketplace, not just as a place where people congregate, but perhaps having an association with celestial or calendrical phenomena.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
mercados, tianguis, círculos, huellas, nombres de lugares, topónimos
tianquiz(tli), marketplace, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tianquiztli
-tenco, at the edge, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tenco
Cerca del Mercado
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 708v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=495&st=image.
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