Tianquiztenco (MH778r)

Tianquiztenco (MH778r)
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. The sign consists of a circle with a border on the perimeter that has seven double hatch marks evenly spaced around. Inside the circle are seven somewhat scattered footprints, implying the movement of people around the marketplace, but also providing the phonetic value for -quiz (from the verb quiza, to emerge).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

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:

barrio tian
guistengo

Gloss Normalization:

barrio, Tianquistenco

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

phonetic dimensions

place name

Syntax:

locative (not visual)

noun(s)

verb

visual plural (multiples of objects)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Footprint(s), human

Markets, Commerce, Economy

Movement

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

bird's eye view

circle, circular or rounded

segmented

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

mercados, tianguis, nombres de barrios, círculos, huellas, topónimos, nombres de lugares

Museum & Rare Book Comparisons:

Museum/Rare Book Notes:

This detail of a tianquiztli (market place) from the Florentine Coex (Book 8, f. 50v) shows a glyph similar to what is seen above. It is a bordered circle with footprints that show movement across the space. It also has hash marks inside the perimeter, perhaps suggesting that the larger space has internal divisions (for vendors?). See the Digital Florentine Codex (Getty Research Institute): https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/8/folio/50v/images/aeabee3d-1ce7-...

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tianquiz(tli), marketplace, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tianquiztli
-tenco, at the edge of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tenco

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

A la Orilla del Tianguis (nombre de barrio)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 778r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=632&st=image

Image Source, Rights:

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).

Orthography:

"g" for c, q, or x

"s" for z

Historical Contextualizing Image: