Xochimilcatzinco (Mdz24v)

This colorful compound Nahuatl hieroglyph for the place name Xochimilcatzinco (perhaps "New Xochimilco") has three prominent features, two multi-colored flowers (xochitl) in yellow, red, green, and turquoise blue. The flowers are sitting on a horizontal, rectangular, segmented agricultural parcel (milli), with alternating purple and orange segments. The land is textured with dots and tipped-over u's or backwards c's. To the left of the land and flowers is the half-body of a man, in profile, meant to call forth the reading of buttocks (tzintli), which provides the phonetic value for the -tzinco of place names that says new, little, lesser, or lower. The half-body is facing into the land (in the direction of the viewer's right), and it was painted with a terracotta color.