Tozpanxoch (Azca16)

Tozpanxoch (Azca16)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This painted black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name (perhaps “Yellow-Headed Parrot Flag-Flower” or “Yellow Flag-Flower”) is attested here as a woman’s name. The contextualizing image shows that the person with the name Tozpanxoch has been taken captive. She wears only a skirt. The warrior who has captured her is holding her by her hair. Her sister Chimalxoch was also taken captive in this scene, as was their father, Huitzilihuitl. The captors were the Xaltocameca.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

There is a Tozpan glyph in this collection (as of May 2025), but not another Tozpanxoch.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tospanxoch

Gloss Normalization:

Tozpanxoch

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Azcatitlan, Codex (Azca)

Date of Manuscript:

post-1550, possibly from the early seventeenth century.

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

perhaps Tlatelolco, Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

gray

red

white/neutral

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

loros, flores, colores, amarillo, banderas, nombres de mujeres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

toz(tli), yellow-headed Amazon parrot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/toztli
xoch(itl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
pan(itl), a flag or banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Loro Amarillo-Flor, o Bandera Amarilla-Flor

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

The Codex Azcatitlan is also known as the Histoire mexicaine, [Manuscrit] Mexicain 59–64. It is housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and hosted on line by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=16&st=image

Image Source, Rights:

The Library of Congress is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.” But please cite Bibliothèque Nationale de France and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.

Historical Contextualizing Image: