Tlallachco (Mdz32r)

Tlallachco (Mdz32r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph standing for the place name Tlallachco has two principal visual features. It consists of ball court (tlachtli), which is in the shape of an uppercase i lying on its side. This court is painted as though it is agricultural land (tlalli), purple in color and textured with dots and u-shapes on their sides, open to our left. The tlachtli is outlined in yellow. The locative suffix (-co) is not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This ball court is seen from a birdseye view. Ball courts can vary in color, but across the Codex Mendoza they do hold this shape of a capital "i" on its side (see below, right).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tlallachco.pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Tlallachco, pueblo

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

locative (not visual)

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Agriculture, Gardens, Stockraising

Land Parcels, Use, Issues

Landscape Features

Names (places)

Sports, Games, Leisure

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

purple

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

dotted, granular, textured

horizontal

bird's eye view

rectangular

U-shapes (any direction)

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

land, lands, parcels, agriculture, balls, ballcourts, ball courts, game fields, pelotas, juegos, agricultura, parcelas, tierras

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlal(li), land, agricultural parcel, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlachtli
tlach(tli), ball court, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlachtli
-co (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 32 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 74 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).