tolin (Mdz38r)

tolin (Mdz38r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element for tolin (reeds, rushes, tules) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Zacatollan. This glyph has three reeds connected at the base, where the bottom part of the reeds is white. The tips of the reeds are yellow. This one does not have the round bumps near the tips that may represent flowers.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

In some representations of tolin where Tollan is conveyed, we have wondered whether the white base of the tules are meant to indicate teeth, and therefore the -tlan that goes to -lan when preceded by Tol-. Here again, Zacatollan has that -lan ending, which may reinforce the presence of the -tlan locative.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Plants, Flora
Colors: 
green (dark)
green (light)
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiky
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

tolli, tollin, tolin, reeds, bulrushes, sedges, tules

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

toll(in), tule reeds, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tollin

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

tules

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 38 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 86 of 188.

Image Source, Rights: 

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).

See Also: 

Zacatollan (Mdz38r)

tolin (Mdz30r)

tolin (Mdz40r)

tolin (Mdz3v)

tolin (Mdz8r)