Chalco (Mdz7v)
Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:
This is a multicolored painting of the simplex glyph for the place name, Chalco. It shows a chalchihuitl (jade) on a gray-purple background and inside a square.
Description, Credit:
Stephanie Wood
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Date of Manuscript:
c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest
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Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):
Chalco, a place name, a municipality, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chalco
Image Source:
Codex Mendoza, folio 07 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 25, 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).