Tlaltizapan (Mdz24v)

Tlaltizapan (Mdz24v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Tlaltizapan has two principal features, a rectangular, segmented, textured parcel of land (tlalli) and one large and three smaller mounds of chalk (tizatl). The land parcel is orange in the center and purple on the ends. It has dots and sideways "u's," texturing that suggests cultivation. The largest chalk mound is outlined in black and curved, containing many dots. The other mounds are not outlined, but they are also curved groups of dots.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tlaltiçapā, pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Tlaltizapan, 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:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Landscape Features

Names (places)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

orange/terracotta

purple

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

curving, curvy, curved

dotted, granular, textured

horizontal

rectangular

right angle(s)

U-shapes (any direction)

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

tierras, parcelas, tiza

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tla(li), land, earth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalli
tiza(tl), chalk, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tizatl
-pan (locative suffix), in or on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 24 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 59 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).