Tzilacaapan (Mdz40r)

Tzilacaapan (Mdz40r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Tzilacaapan (or Tzilacapan, if apocopated) has two principal elements. One is a soft squash (tzilacayotli), and the other is a cross-section view of a canal that contains the squash or has the squash superimposed upon it. The canal has turquoise blue water with black wavy lines of current and shells and possibly droplets splashing off the top. The lining of the canal is red.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The locative suffix (-apan), meaning "on the water," derives from the visual of the canal or waterway (apantli).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

tzilaca apan.puo

Gloss Normalization: 

Tzilacaapan, pueblo

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: 
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising
Food, Eating, Cooking
Movement
Names (places)
Plants, Flora
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
blue (turquoise)
green (dark)
green (light)
red
Shapes and Perspectives: 
striped
trapezoidal
cross-sectioned object
horizontal
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
front to back
Keywords: 

canales, agua, calabasas

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

apan(tli), canal/waterway, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/apantli
tzilacayo(tli), soft squash, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzilacayotli
-apan (locative suffix), on the water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/apan-0

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 40 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 90 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: 

atl (Mdz40r)