Yaotlan (Mdz46r)

Yaotlan (Mdz46r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for the place name Yaotlan also doubles at the glyph for enemy (yaotl). The glyph has two components, a round, white shield (chimalli) and a simple, terracotta-colored club (macuahuitl). The locative suffix (-tlan) is not shown visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

Syntax: 
locative (not visual)
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
War or Conflict
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
orange/terracotta
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
horizontal
Keywords: 

shields, escudos, rodelas, armas

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

yao(tl), enemy, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yaotl
-tlan (locative suffix), place, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

el enemigo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 46 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 102 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)