Chalco (Mdz3v)

Chalco (Mdz3v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a colorful painting of the simplex glyph for the place name Chalco. It is also the sign for chalchihuitl (jade).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

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

Chalco, a place name, a municipality, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chalco

Image Source: 
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).