Xochimilco (Azca20)

Xochimilco (Azca20)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This painted black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Xochimilco (“At the Flower Fields”) shows a rectangular piece of agricultural land (milli) with brown dots of various sizes that might represent seeds. Coming up from this field is one large flower (xochitl). The petals are yellow, anthers are red, and there is a round center that is left natural.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

We are calling this a glyph even lacking a gloss, being certain of its interpretation when based upon comparisons with other compound glyphs of this name. Normally, what are called iconographic examples in this digital collection are so labelled due to the lack of a confirming gloss. However, ideally, comparisons with glossed glyphs will help bear out the interpretations in such cases. Note the examples of other Xochimilco glyphs below, which are indeed glossed.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Azcatitlan, Codex (Azca)

Date of Manuscript:

post-1550, possibly from the early seventeenth century.

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

perhaps Tlatelolco, Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising

Flowers

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

brown

red

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

rectangular

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

agricultura, flores, milpas, parcelas, cultivo, pueblos, topónimos, nombres de lugares

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xoch(itl), flowers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
mil(li), agricultural field, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/milli
-co (locative suffix), in or at, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

En la Milpa de Flores

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

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, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=20&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: