Toltitlan (Mdz3v)

Toltitlan (Mdz3v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Toltitlan shows a cluster of tules (tollin) colored two tones of green and with yellow flowers standing upright on a thin, gray, rectangular, horizontal base. A full set of white teeth re imbedded in the group of tules. They are shown in profile, slightly open, and facing the viewer's left.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Gordon Whittaker suggests that the full set of teeth is more often used when the locative includes the ligature (-ti-), resulting in -titlan. This example supports the case. Advanced searches for glyphs ending in -tlan and ending in -titlan will provide data showing a somewhat mixed result, but there is a tendency toward what Whittaker suggests.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
phonetic dimensions
place name
Syntax: 
ligature -ti- (visual)
locative (visual not silent)
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Mouth/Beak Open
Names (places)
Plants, Flora
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Teeth Protruding/Noticeable
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
gray
green (dark)
green (light)
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
horizontal
spiky
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

tules, dientes

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

tol(lin), tules, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tollin
tlan(tli), tooth/teeth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlantli
-tlan (locative suffix), by, near, among, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 3 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 17 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: 

tolin (Mdz3v)

tlantli (Mdz3v)