Xochimilca (Azca9)

Xochimilca (Azca9)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This colorful compound glyph refers to the ethnicity (Xochimilca) that is associated with Xochimilco. The glyph includes a yellow and red sign for flower (xochitl) atop a narrow piece of agricultural land (milli) painted gray, and below that, a building that anchors the flower to a place (implying the locative suffix -co, found on the place name).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

xochimillca

Gloss Normalization: 

Xochimilca

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Azcatitlan, Codex (Azca)
Date of Manuscript: 

post-1550, but content about the migration from Aztlan to about 1527

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

perhaps Tlatelolco, Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Flowers
Land Parcels, Use, Issues
Landscape Features
Names (places)
Plants, Flora
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
gray
red
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
dotted, granular, textured
frontal view
rectangular
right angle(s)
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
3
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

flores, milpas, lugares, etnicidades, gente de Xochimilco, personas de Xochimilco

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

xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
mil(li), agricultural field, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/milli
-catl, ethnic affiliation

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.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=9&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: