Tlacotlalpan (Mdz46r)

Tlacotlalpan (Mdz46r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Tlacotlalpan has two principal elements. One is a circle in which just half (tlaco) is filled in. The other is the content of that left half of that otherwise empty circle, and this is a segmented parcel of land (tlalli). It is textured with dots and u-like shapes tipped over on their sides. The land is colored half terracotta and half purple, colors typical of tlalli signs. The locative suffix (-pan) is not shown visually, although "on the land" could be implied.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tlacotlalpā

Gloss Normalization:

Tlacotlalpan

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)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising

Land Parcels, Use, Issues

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

orange/terracotta

purple

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

segmented

U-shapes (any direction)

tripartite

circle, circular or rounded

dotted, granular, textured

bird's eye view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

right to left

Keywords:

halves, medios, mitad, círculos, tierras, lands, parcels, parcelas, agricultura

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlaco, half, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaco
tlal(li), land, parcels, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalli
-pan (locative suffix), on or in, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 46 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 102 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).