Tlauhpan (Mdz13r)

Tlauhpan (Mdz13r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Tlauhpan includes a round circle filled with the color red (tlatlauhqui) and a black (left) footprint, which can represent the verb pano, to cross over, or just imply being "on" something, standing for the locative suffix (-pan). The footprint is shown in a bird's eye view, and it is heading toward the viewer's left.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Gordon Whittaker provides the transliteration with the stem of "tlauh" (Deciphering Aztec Hieroglyphs, 2021, 95. See below for another example of the footprint being used to say "on" (-pan).

Footprint glyphs have a wide range of translations. In this collection, so far, we can attest to yauh, xo, pano, -pan, paina, temo, nemi, quetza, otli, iyaquic hualiloti, huallauh, tetepotztoca, totoco, -tihui, and the vowel "o." Other research (Herrera et al, 2005, 64) points to additional terms, including: choloa, tlaloa, totoyoa, eco, aci, quiza, maxalihui, centlacxitl, and xocpalli.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

tlappan.puo

Gloss Normalization: 

Tlauhpan, 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: 
Color names
Footprint(s), human
Names (places)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inward (from outside in)
Keywords: 

rojo, colores, colors

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

tlatlauhqui, red, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatlauhqui
tlapal(li), red, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlapalli
pano, to cross over, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pano
-pan (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

"On the Red" (Whittaker, 2021, 95)

Whittaker's Transliteration: 

TLAUH•pan2

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 13 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 36 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).

See Also: 

tlatlauhqui (Mdz51r)

Iztapan (Mdz38r)