tolin (Mdz2r)

tolin (Mdz2r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This iconographic example of rushes or tules (tolin) is provided here as a comparison for the hieroglyph. In this example, there are four tules, each one with two yellow blossoms facing to the viewer's right and a yellow point at the top. The stalks are green. Black line drawings of roots come off the bottom of the cluster of tules.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

In some examples of tules that are found in hieroglyphs for Tollan, the roots are more blocky or squared, taking the appearance of white teeth. It may be that in such cases the desire is to evoke (tlantli) (teeth), the phonetic element for the locative suffix -tlan (place).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Plants, Flora
Colors: 
green (dark)
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
pointed (see also spiky)
roots are visible
spiky
vertical, upright
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tol(in), tules, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tolin-1

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

tules

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 02 recto, https://codicemendoza.inah.gob.mx/inicio.php?lang=english.

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: 

Tollan (Mdz8r)