Tlaquilpan (Mdz22r)

Tlaquilpan (Mdz22r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph of a tool (tlaquilqui) for applying stucco or plaster tlaquilli doubles as the place name, Tlaquilpan. The locative suffix -pan does not appear visually. The tool has a round hole at the top, seemingly for putting one's fingers through or for hanging the tool on a wall, and it has a horizontal blade. The entire object is drawn with a black line and has no color as it is represented here.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Molina also gives tlaquilqui as the person who applies the stucco and tlaquilli as something stuccoed or polished, burnished, or shining. Olmos (1547, f. 200v) translates tlaquilli as "encalar" (to stucco, a verb). So, while the word can be a verb or describe a thing that has received the action of stuccoing or polishing, it also seems to represent the noun for stucco. In the Florentine Codex, Book 10, folio 18r, a tool much like this may be employed in the making of mortar, another (similar) job for a mason.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

tlaquilpā. puo=

Gloss Normalization: 

Tlaquilpan, pueblo

Gloss 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

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Syntax: 
adjective
noun(s)
verb
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Colors: 
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
horizontal
Keywords: 

encalar, encalador, lugar de estuco, cal, yeso, plano, albañil, albañiles, herramienta, herramientas, nombres de lugares

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

tlaquil(li), stucco (noun) or to stucco (verb), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaquilli
tlaquil(qui), spatula for applying stucco, or the person who applies the stucco, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaquilqui
-pan (locative suffix)

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 22 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 54 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)

See Also: 

Tlaquilpan (CmpRG)