Tlalcozauhtitlan (Mdz8r)

Tlalcozauhtitlan (Mdz8r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Tlalcozauhtitlan shows two main elements. One is a rectangular, segmented, parcel of land (tlalli) that is orange and purple and has textures of dots and sideways u's. Above this parcel is a pile of dots and small circles painted yellow (cozauhqui). The ligature (-ti-) and the locative suffix (-tlan) are not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The yellow mound has dots and small circles that are reminiscent of sand (xalli), as can be seen below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tlalcoçauhtitlā

Gloss Normalization:

Tlalcozauhtitlan

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising

Color names

Land Parcels, Use, Issues

Landscape Features

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

orange/terracotta

purple

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

rectangular

U-shapes (any direction)

circle (half)

dotted, granular, textured

bird's eye view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

earth, land, parcels, tierras, sementeras, colores, amarillo

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlal(li), land, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalli
cozauhqui, something yellow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozauhqui
-tlan (locative suffix), place, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 8 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 26, 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).