Tlacotlalpan (Mdz46r)

Tlacotlalpan (Mdz46r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Tlacotlalpan has two principal elements. One is a circle in which just half (tlaco) is filled in. The other is the content of that left half of that otherwise empty circle, and this is a segmented parcel of land (tlalli). It is textured with dots and u-like shapes tipped over on their sides. The land is colored half terracotta and half purple, colors typical of tlalli signs. The locative suffix (-pan) is not shown visually, although "on the land" could be implied.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

tlacotlalpā

Gloss Normalization: 

Tlacotlalpan

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
Syntax: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
Keywords: 

halves, medios, mitad, círculos, tierras, lands, parcels, parcelas, agricultura

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

Codex Mendoza, folio 46 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 102 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).