tlaahuilia (Mdz27r)

tlaahuilia (Mdz27r)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name, Tlaahuililpan, doubles as a glyph for the verb tlaahuilia, to water something. In this case the concept is that a ceramic, terracotta jug full of turquoise-blue water is tipping over to irrigate a land parcel. The parcel (a tlalli, milli, or the like) has the typical segmentation, with parts that are purple and parts that are terracotta-colored. It shows texturing (dots and tipped-over U-shapes) that suggests agriculture.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Syntax:

verb

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising

Containers, Dishes, Eating Utensils

Land Parcels, Use, Issues

Colors:

purple (light)/lavender

Shapes and Perspectives:

bird's eye view

C-shapes (any direction)

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

dotted, granular, textured

rectangular

segmented

U-shapes (any direction)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

water, shells, caracoles, jarra de agua, riego, agricultura, parcelas, terrenos, tierras, cantaros, earthenware, ceramic, ceramics, cerámicas, jug, pot, olla, jarra, jarro, vessel, vessels, vasija de cerámica, cántaro, cántaros, xoctli, xoctepi, huicolli, atlacuihuani, tecomitl, tecontontli, apilolli

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
tlaahuilia, to water something, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaahuilia

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

regar algo

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 27 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 64 of 188.

Image Source, Rights:

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).