Tzompanco (Mdz24v)

Tzompanco (Mdz24v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Tzompanco.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This compound glyph for the place name, Tzompanco, includes two principal elements, a tzontli, which translates as 400 or a bundle of four hundred pieces of grass or hair, and a flag, pantli. The locative suffix -co is not represented visually. The clump of hair appears at the top of the post holding the flag, and the hair stands straight up, perhaps meant to recall a head of hair. But the overall meaning might be, instead, a place with 400 flags.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

çompanco, pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Tzompanco, pueblo

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

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:

place name

Syntax:

locative (not visual)

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flags, banners

Names (places)

Numbers, Math

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Shapes and Perspectives:

shading and parallel line hatching

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

flags, banners, four hundred

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tzon(tli), hairs, hair, or 400, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli
pan(itl), flag or banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl
-co (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 24 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 59 of 188.

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).