Xocotla (Mdz20v)

Xocotla (Mdz20v)
Compound Glyph

Gloss Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Food, Eating, Cooking
Names (places)
Plants, Flora
Colors: 
green (light)
red
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
frontal view
profile view
Keywords: 

trees, árboles, frutas agrias, sour fruits

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

xocotla, a place where fruit abounds, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xocotla
xoco(tl), hog plum, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xocotl
tlan(tli), tooth/teeth, https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/tlantli
-tla or -tlah (locative suffix), place of abundance of preceding noun, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 20 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00... image 51 of 188.

Image Source, Rights: 

Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

xocotl (Mdz55r)