Tlacopan (Mdz5v)

Tlacopan (Mdz5v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph represents both tlacotl (a type of flower) and the place name Tlacopan. The locative suffix -pan is not shown visually. It includes three stems painted a terracotta color, green leaves, and flowers of turquoise, white, red, and yellow.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

It is possible that this glyph is not a simplex but a compound, with the base under the osier twig flowers representing the locative -pan.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
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: 
Flowers
Names (places)
Plants, Flora
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
tripartite
Keywords: 

wood, madera, sticks, twigs, arrows, flechas

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Tlacōpan, "El lugar de jarillas"

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Miguel León-Portilla, "Los nombres de lugar en náhuatl," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 15 (1982), 40.

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 5 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 21 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).

See Also: 

Tlacopan (CmpRG)

Tlacopan (MH602v)