Tocuiltecatl (Mdz65r)

Tocuiltecatl (Mdz65r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This simplex glyph stands for the title Tocuiltecatl, "One from Tocuillan," referring to a name and/or a civil and/or military title that is shown on folio 65 recto of the Codex Mendoza. The glyph is a green worm (ocuilin) shown in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. Its body is segmented, two legs are showing, and it has a head with a mouth, teeth, and a small protrusion that curls forward at the top.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The worm (ocuilin) might simply be a phonetic indicator for a part of the term or name (attested here as a man's name), Tocuiltecatl. Other glyphs for the title Tocuiltecatl show flags that may have an association with the month of Panquetzaliztli. See below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

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:

calendrics

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

cuil (tracking)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as phonogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

segmented

Keywords:

titles, títulos, civiles, militares, worms, gusanos, meses, months, Panquetzaliztli

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Additional Scholars' Interpretations:

James Lockhart (The Nahuas, 1992, 121) saw this title, "Tocuiltecatl," in the censuses of Culhuacan, c. 1580, and translated it "Inhabitant of Tocuillan."

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 65 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00...

Image Source, Rights:

Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)