Xochitzin Atlauhco (CQ)

Xochitzin Atlauhco (CQ)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Xochitzin Atlauhco ("At Xochitzin's Ravine") has two main features. One is a flower (xochitl) in a frontal view. It has a three petals painted red and a tripartite sepal that is left unpainted. Below the flower is a broad, horizontal, red line, outlined in black. It appears to be a ravine, shown from a bird's eye perspective.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The reverential suffix (-tzin) on the word for flower is not shown visually, nor is the locative suffix (-co), but perhaps the landscape provides a semantic locative. There is a male lord named Xochitzin who appears on this manuscript; perhaps this is a ravine in the territory associated with him. The broad red line must intend to convey the ravine (atlauhtli) implied in the remainder of the name given in the gloss.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

xochitzin atlauhco

Gloss Normalization: 

Xochitzin Atlauhco

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Quetzalecatzin, Codex (CQ)
Date of Manuscript: 

covers ruling men and women of Tecamachalco through 1593

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

southern Puebla state

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Syntax: 
locative (not visual)
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flowers
Landscape Features
Names (places)
Plants, Flora
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Transportation, Travel, Roads
Colors: 
red
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
horizontal
bird's eye view
frontal view
tripartite
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Other Cultural Influences: 
Mixtec
Keywords: 

flowers, flores, places, lugares, names, nombres, ravines, barrancas

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

xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
atlauh(tli), deep ravine, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atlauhtli
-tzin (reverential suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzin

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

P[ueblo] Xochitzin Atlauhco? “In the Canyon of Xochitzin” [Xochitzin “Revered Flower” is person’s name]. Matthew T. McDavitt, “Placenames in the Codex Quetzalecatzin,” unpublished essay shared 2-21-2018.

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

la flor en el río o arroyo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Ofelia Cruz Morales

Image Source: 

The Codex Quetzalecatzin, aka Mapa de Ecatepec-Huitziltepec, Codex Ehecatepec-Huitziltepec, or Charles Ratton Codex. Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017590521/

Image Source, Rights: 

The Library of Congress, current custodian of this pictorial Mexican manuscript, hosts a digital version online. It is not copyright protected.

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

xochitl (Mdz27r)