tzinacantli (T2682:10:16r)

The pictorial upon which this element 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 the investigation of the land in question by order of the Viceroy. The glyph of which the bat is an element is clearly glossed and is positioned above an image of a church and a group of houses (calli) depicted in a traditional Nahua manner which represents Tzinacantepec, as well (see the gloss and the historical contextualizing 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 contextualizing image..