Teotenanco (Mdz10r)

Teotenanco (Mdz10r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Teotenanco includes the glyph for divine force(s)(teotl) in yellow, white, green, and red, and below that, the glyph for a rampart/wall in turquoise blue with a horizontal row of four concentric circles and three stepped segments of crenelation along the top. The locative suffix -co is not represented visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The reading order analysis is both top to bottom (downward) and back to front, given that some of the teotl glyph is behind the tenantli. This placement may suggest a sun peeking through the crenelation. The association between divine force(s) and the sun (or a day) (tonatiuh) is clear in the visual representation of both (see below).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

teotenanco. pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Teotenanco, pueblo (Tenango del Valle, state of Mexico, today)

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:

locative (not visual)

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Names (places)

Religion (Indigenous)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

half circle

crenelated

horizontal

pointed (see also spiky)

stepped

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

back to front

Keywords:

divinidad, paredes, almenas, cresterías

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

teo(tl), divine or sacred force(s), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teotl
tenan(tli), parapet, rampart, or wall, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tenantli
-co (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co
tonatiuh, the sun, a day, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tonatiun

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 10 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 30 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).