Tlanicontlan (MH757r)

Tlanicontlan (MH757r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a black-line drawing (with a little added red coloring) that shows the compound glyph for the place name, Tlanicontlan (perhaps "Near the Underside of the Ceramic [Clay?]").

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

shading and parallel line hatching

striped

three-dimensionality

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Keywords:

nombres de lugares, pueblos, banderas, cerámica, cerros, montañas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

comi(tl), ceramic pot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/comitl
tlani, below or underneath, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlani
tlahuahuan(tli), something with lines (like the flag), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahuahuantli

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 757r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=592&st=image

Image Source, Rights:

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).

Historical Contextualizing Image: