Xochimilco (Azca17)

This painted black-line drawing for the compound place name Xochimilco (“Place of Flower Fields”) is shown next to a person that is glossed as one of the people of Xochimilco (Xochimilca). The glyph doubles as ethnic label and the place name. The glyph shows a bulbous three-petaled red flower (xochitl) with a golden stem and two leaves, one on each side. Below this flower is a rectangular agricultural field (milli) with four horizontal divisions. The top one is dotted (seeded?), and this is where the flower grows. The next two in descending order are uncolored bands or stripes. Finally, the lowest of the four divisions has four groups of two parallel horizontal lines. Perhaps this is an indication of furrows, but it is unlike the milli and tlalli parcels in the Codex Mendoza (see below).