Tochpan (Mdz10v)

Tochpan (Mdz10v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Tochpan includes a rabbit (tochtli) in profile (facing left) and, above, that, a footprint, meant to provide the locative suffix -pan, on. The rabbit is crouching. It is painted a grayish purple, but its underside is white. Its ears are standing up, but they are not especially long (not like a jack rabbit). Two teeth are visible, protruding from the closed mouth. The footprint (for a left foot) is going in a leftward direction.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The footprint can mean pano (to cross over), which, when shortened, can serve as the locative -pan. But it also appears that the foot is "on" the rabbit, which conjures up the -pan, too.

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: 

tuchpan. puo

Gloss Normalization: 

Tochpan, 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)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Footprint(s), human
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Teeth Protruding/Noticeable
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
profile view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

rabbits, conejos, huellas, footprints

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

toch(tli) (rabbit), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tochtli
-pan (locative), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan

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).

See Also: 

tochtli (Mdz17v)

tochtli (Mdz8r)

Tlaltizapan (Mdz52r)