Acatzintitlan (Azca17)

Acatzintitlan (Azca17)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This painted black-line drawing of the compound Nahuatl hieroglyph for the place name Acatzintitlan (perhaps “At the Bottom of the Reeds” or “Next to the Little Reeds”) includes the logogram for reed (acatl) and one for buttocks (tzintli). However, the buttocks play a phonetic role, serving here as the reverential suffix -tzin-. The locative -titlan is not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

acatzintitla

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Acatzintitlan

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Azcatitlan, Codex (Azca)

Date of Manuscript:

post-1550, possibly from the early seventeenth century.

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

perhaps Tlatelolco, Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

phonetic dimensions

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Names (places)

Plants, Flora

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

carrizo, cañas, plantas, pueblos, topónimos, nombres de lugares

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

aca(tl), reed, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acatl
tzin(tli), rear end, reverential, or diminutive, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzintli
-titlan (locative suffix), next to, below, with, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/titlan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Al Pie del Carrizal, o Junto al Lugar de las Pequeñas Cañas

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

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, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=17&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.

Orthography:

dropped "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: