Zacahuitzco (Osu114)

Zacahuitzco (Osu114)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This painted compound Nahuatl hieroglyph represents the place name Zacahuitzco (perhaps, “At the Grassy Thorns”). The compound has two elements. On the left is a curling sprig of fuzzy grass (zacatl) painted a light yellow. On the right is apparently a thorn (huitztli) that is painted a grayish color.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Zacatl is a type of grass that can be fuzzy or fluffy as the additional examples below will show. Sometimes, however, it is just simple blades.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

çacahuitzco

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Zacahuitzco

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Osuna, Codex (Osu)

Date of Manuscript:

1551–1565

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Names (places)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

gray

yellow or golden

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

left to right

Keywords:

espina, espigón, paja, heno, césped, nombres de lugares

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

zaca(tl), grasses, straw, or hay, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zacatl
huitz(tli), a thorn or spine, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitztli
-co (locative suffix), at or in, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Lugar de Espinas entre la Hierba

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Library of Congress Online Catalog and the World Digital Library, Osuna Codex, or Painting of the Governor, Mayors, and Rulers of Mexico, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_07324/. The original is located in the Biblioteca Nacional de España.

Image Source, Rights:

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Orthography:

"ç" for z or tz

Historical Contextualizing Image: