Tizocic (Mdz12r)

Tizocic (Mdz12r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black and white drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tizocic is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows a leg covered with dots. The dots suggest chalk (tizatl) dust. Tizatl provide the phonetic start to the name, Tiz-. How the leg or knee come into play requires further research.

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

Semantic Categories: 
phonetic dimensions
Writing Features: 
undetermined yet
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Landscape Features
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Politics, Power, Governance
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
spotted or mottled
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

Tizocic, a personal name; e.g. the name of a grandson of Motecuhzoma and the seventh ruler of Tenochtitlan Mexico, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tizocic
tiza(tl), chalk or white wash, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tizatl

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 12 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 34 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)

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tizocic (TR39r)