Tlaahuililpan (Mdz27r)

Tlaahuililpan (Mdz27r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Tlaahuililpan features three elements. One is a ceramic jug for fetching water, another is the water pouring from it, and the third is an agricultural parcel. The jug has a rounded body and a handle; it is painted a terracotta color. The water is the usual turquoise blue with black lines of current and white turbinate shells and white water droplets/beads coming off the little streams or splashes. The horizontal, rectangular, and segmented agricultural parcel has two terracotta colored pieces and two purple pieces. All are textured with dots and sideways u's. The locative suffix (-pan) is not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The jar may be an (atlacuihuani), but it is not contributing to the phonetics of the place name. Rather it is showing how the land (tlalli), again, not phonetic, is watered, indicating the verb, tlaahuilia. An irrigated parcel is a tlahuilili, which is also indicated.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tlaahuililpā.pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Tlaahuililpan, pueblo

Gloss Analysis, 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

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

verb

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Agriculture, Gardens, Stockraising

Ceramics, Pottery

Containers, Dishes, Eating Utensils

Names (places)

Shells

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

dotted, granular, textured

horizontal

rectangular

right angle(s)

U-shapes (any direction)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Number of Parts, Other / Comment:

They jug, the water, and the segmented parcel of agricultural land all have either semantic and/or phonetic value.

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

tierras, parcelas, agricultura, riego, cantaros

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlaahuilia, to water something, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaahuilia
tlaahuilil(li), an irrigated garden or agricultural plot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaahuililli
-pan (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan

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).