Tlayacapan (Mdz24v)

Tlayacapan (Mdz24v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Tlayacapan features a hill or mountain (tepetl), with a human nose shown in profile facing to the viewer's right, and above that, an upright, white banner. The hill is the standard, two-tone green bell shape with rocky outcroppings on the left slope, and the horizontal red and yellow stripes at its base. The nose is a terracotta color. The flag is a tall, narrow rectangle.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The tepetl silent here, being what Gordon Whittaker calls a semantic complement] with a nose (yacatl). The flag (panitl)], which provides the phonetic value for the locative suffix (-pan).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tlayacapā. pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Tlayacapan, pueblo

Gloss 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:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Flags, banners

Landscape Features

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

bell-shaped (upright)

pointed (see also spiky)

rectangular

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

left to right

Keywords:

hills, mountains, noses, flags, cerros, banderas, narices, nariz, montañas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tla- (indefinite prefix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tla
yaca(tl), nose, point, ridge, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yacatl
pan(itl), flag, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl
-pan (locative suffix), 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).