Tollantzinco (Mdz30r)

Tollantzinco (Mdz30r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a green, yellow, white, and terracotta-colored painting of the compound glyph for the place name Tollantzinco.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Karttunen prefers to think of this place name as referring to a spin-off of Tollan (and not necessarily little).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
phonetic dimensions
place name
Syntax: 
locative (not visual)
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (places)
Plants, Flora
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
green (light)
tan
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
facing downward
facing right
frontal view
profile view
pointed (see also spiky)
spiky
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
right to left
multidirectional
Keywords: 

tules, tule reeds, canes, cattails, butts, buttocks, rear end, little, lower, culos, pequeño, abajo, -tzinco locative, nalgas, trasero, Tulancingo, Tulancinco, Tolancingo, Tolancinco, Tollancingo, Tollancinco, Tullancinco, Tullancingo, Tullantzinco

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

tol(lin), tule reeds, https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/tollin
-tzinco (locative suffix), lower, little, or new [town], https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzinco

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 30 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 70 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: 

tolin (Mdz30r)

tzintli (Mdz30r)

tzintli (Mdz40r)