Panchimalco (HJ276:79:pt2:89r)

This compound place name glyph appears on a pictorial manuscript submitted by indigenous petitioners on or around October 11, 1549, as evidence during a land dispute between the Cuernavacan community of Panchimalco and the Marquesado del Valle. One of the pictorials found in the so-called Códice del Marquesado del Valle, it pictures a parcel of agricultural land belonging to the community that had allegedly been usurped by the Marqués twelve years previously, when it was planted with sugar cane. The place name is linked to a representation of a calli (perhaps a calpixcan, the place where tribute is collected, a term which is found in Spanish texts associated with the pictorial), an image clearly asserting that the community of Panchimalco was the legitimate holder of the parcel in question (see the historical contextualizing image, below). For more information, consult Von Mentz, Cuauhnahuac, 2008, 118, 472; Códices indígenas de algunos pueblos del Marquesado, 1933 and 1883, “Códice núm. 9; and Santiago Sánchez, Códices del Marquesado del Valle, 2003, 86-122.