Tochpan (Mdz52r)

Tochpan (Mdz52r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Tochpan ("On the Rabbit") features a purple or gray rabbit (tochtli), full-bodied, with a white stomach. It is crouching in a profile view, facing toward the viewer's right. Standing up on his back, facing to the left, is a flag (panitl) that provides the phonetic value for the locative suffix -pan ("in" or "on").

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

tuchpa. 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: 
phonetic dimensions
place name
Syntax: 
locative (visual not silent)
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Flags, banners
Names (places)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
purple
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
dotted, granular, textured
facing right
profile view
Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

rabbits, conejos, banderas, nombres de lugares, topónimos

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

tochtli, rabbit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tochtli
pan(itl), flag or banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl
pam(itl), flag or agricultural row, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pamitl
-pan (locative), in or on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

"On the Rabbits" (Whittaker, 2021, 100)

Whittaker's Transliteration: 

TOCH-pan

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 52 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 114 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)

panitl (Mdz55r)