Xicochimalco (TR40r)

Xicochimalco (TR40r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This colorful painting of the compound glyph for the place name Xicochimalco ("At the Bee-Shield") shows a round white war shield with a black and yellow bee (xicotli) in the middle. A white paper flag stands up from behind the shield. Also behind the shield are horizontal arrows with feathers.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Remarkably, a map of Xicochimalco from litigation over land in 1802 has a sign of a bee above the central church of the town. However, perhaps not surprisingly given the colonial context, the war shield and arrows are not there.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

xicochimalco

Gloss Normalization: 

Xicochimalco

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Telleriano-Remensis, Codex (TR)
Date of Manuscript: 

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Feathers
Names (places)
War or Conflict
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
gray
red
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
horizontal
frontal view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
outward (from inside out)
Keywords: 

bees, abejas, avispas, flechas, escudos, rodelas, plumas

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

xico(tli), a large honey bee, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xicotli
chimal(li), war shield, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chimalli
-co (locative suffix), in or at, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

En la Rodela de la Abeja

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 40 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f105.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

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Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Xicochimalco (Mdz13r)