Nicontlan (Chav6)

Nicontlan (Chav6)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Nicontlan. The glyph requires decipherment, but the -con- part of the word is represented phonetically by the ceramic jug (comitl). The jug has shaping that makes it three-dimensional. Coming out of the top of the jug is a horizontally striped flag of the type that may relate to the festival of Panquetzaliztli. It is rectangular and upright, on a post, and it has two smaller banners curving off the top to the left. These little banners also have horizontal stripes. The locative suffix (-tlan) is not shown visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Nicontlan

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Chavero, Codex (Chav)
Date of Manuscript: 

1578

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
phonetic dimensions
place name
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Ceramics, Pottery
Flags, banners
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
frontal view
profile view
rectangular
shading and parallel line hatching
striped
three-dimensionality
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

banderas, jarras, cerámica, nombres de lugares, topónimos

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

com(itl), ceramic jug, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/comitl
-tlan, by; among; in; to; between, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan

Image Source: 

The Codex Chavero of Huexotzinco (or Códice Chavero de Huexotzinco), https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_03246_001/?sp=6

Image Source, Rights: 

The Codex Chavero of Huexotzinco (or Códice Chavero de Huexotzinco) is held by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México. It is published online by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”

See Also: 

panquetzaliztli (TR5r)

Tocuiltecatl (MH532r)

Tocuillan (MH612r)

Tocuiltecatl (MH727v)

Iyaqui (MH658v)