Tlaollan (Mdz10v)

Tlaollan (Mdz10v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for kernels of cured corn/maize (tlaol(li)] stands for the place name Tlaollan. The -tlan locative suffix is not shown visually. The maize kernels are left white or natural here. The kernels are mounded in a basket with a weave like a petlatl (woven mat), and the basket might have been called a chiquihuitl.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Tlaollan is comprised of tlaolli plus the locative suffix (tlan), which would have dropped its "t" when combined with a stem ending in "l", leaving the double "l" in the name. White is one of the colors of Mexican maize. The basket is contextual.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

tlaolan. puo

Gloss Normalization: 

Tlaollan

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: 
Corn, Maize
Food, Eating, Cooking
Names (places)
Plants, Flora
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
trapezoidal
woven
Keywords: 

corn, maize, maíz, tributes, tributos

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tlaol(li), maze/corn, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaolli

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 10 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 31 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).