Tequixquiac (Mdz29r)

Tequixquiac (Mdz29r)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a blue, orange, white, and yellow painting of the compound glyph for the place name Tequixquiac. The yellow container with turquoise blue water (with its lines of current of varying sizes) represents a canal (apantli), but here it simply stands for the -ac ("at the water") logographic suffix to the place name. Two scalloped-edge orange objects with dots in the middle seem to stand for something granular, perhaps pieces of saltpeter (tequixquitl).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

tequixquiac.puo

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Tequizquiac, pueblo

Gloss/Text 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)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Movement
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Water
Weather, Climate
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
blue (turquoise)
orange/terracotta
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
front to back
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tequixqui(tl), saltpeter, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tequixquitl
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 29 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 68 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: 

Tequixquiac (Mdz4v)