Tlapanic Itlan (Mdz49r)

Tlapanic Itlan (Mdz49r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Tlapanic Itlan has three principal elements: 1) a hill or mountain with the classic two-tone green bell shape and curly rocky outcroppings on the slopes and the yellow and red horizontal stripes at the base; 2) a prominent cleft in the top of the mountain; and, 3) a pair of two front teeth providing the phonetic element in the locative suffix (-tlan).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This place is also called Tlapaniquito, which suggests that the Tlapanic-itlan is often pronounced as one word, but the "c" must be separated off from the following "i," which would make it soft and change the pronunciation. The Itlan is apparently possessed, perhaps meaning "its nearness"?

Added 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:

phonetic dimensions

place name

Syntax:

possessive pronoun

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Landscape Features

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Teeth Protruding/Noticeable

Colors:

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Keywords:

montañas, cerros, mountains, hills, broken, split, roto, quebrado, partido

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlapanic, something broken up or split, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlapanic
tlan(tli), tooth/teeth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlantli
-tlan (locative suffix), by, near, among, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Junto a la Montaña Quebrada

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 49 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 108 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).