Zacatlalmanco (Osu11r)

Zacatlalmanco (Osu11r)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This painted compound Nahuatl hieroglyph represents the place name Zacatlalmanco (“At the Grassy Plains”). It shows three curling sprigs of grasses (zacatl). They appear to be in some kind of round, lidded container. Suggestions for decipherment of this second element are welcomed.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Zacatl, which would be cleared for planting maize or picked for feeding to horses or for use in sweeping, often involves bushy stems such as these, above. But it can also include straight blades that are known in a variety of textiles. See below for some comparisons.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

çacatlalmāc[o]

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Zacatlalmanco

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:

Land Parcels, Use, Issues

Names (places)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

brown

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

hierbas, hierbaja, tierra llanura, tierra allanada

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

zaca(tl), grasses, straw, or hay, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zacatl
tlalman(tli), a flat place, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalmantli
-co (locative suffix), at or in, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Lugar de Llanuras con Zacate

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: