Tzinacantepec (T2682:10:16r)

The pictorial upon which this compound place glyph is located dates from c. 1579. Tzinacantepec (or Zinacantepec) is located in the Toluca Valley. In 1579 a woman named Guiomar de Molina (widow of Diego Hernández, described as an aserrador conquistador, sawyer conquistador), of the City of Mexico, requested a viceregal grant of two caballerías de tierra near the indigenous community. The pictorial was seemingly created at that time; at least it is referred to in the Spanish-languages records of an investigation of the land in question carried out by order of the Viceroy. The glyph is clearly glossed and is positioned above an image of a church and a group of houses [cal(li depicted in a traditional Nahua manner which represents Tzinacantepec, as well (see the gloss and the Historical Context Image). Elsewhere on the map a Spanish-language gloss indicates that the property requested by Guiomar de Molina was on the opposite side of a wall (cerca) that ran between it and lands attached to the indigenous communities in the area, a portion of which appears in grey in the lower left corner of the Historical Context Image.