Huexotzinca (Azca9) | Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs

Huexotzinca (Azca9)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a multicolored painting of the compound glyph for the place name and ethnicity, Huexotzinca.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Azcatitlan, Codex (Azca)

Date of Manuscript:

post-1550, but content about the migration from Aztlan to about 1527

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

perhaps Tlatelolco, Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

vertical, upright

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Huexotzincatl, someone from Huexotzinco, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huexotzincatl

Image Source:

The Codex Azcatitlan is also known as the Histoire mexicaine, [Manuscrit] Mexicain 59–64. It is housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and hosted on line by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=9&st=image

Image Source, Rights:

The Library of Congress is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.” But please cite Bibliothèque Nationale de France and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.

Historical Contextualizing Image: