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, perhaps for putting one's finger through or for hanging the tool on a wall, and it has a horizontal blade. The entire tool is drawn with a black line and has no color as it is represented here.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Molina also gives 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.

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

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, 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)