Tlaahuililpan (Osu35v)

Tlaahuililpan (Osu35v)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This painted compound Nahuatl hieroglyph represents the place name Tlaahuililpan (perhaps "On the Irrigated Land"). It shows a tepetl, a green, bell-shaped hill or mountain, that apparently serves as a generic visual locative. On top of this bell shape is a narrow, vertical pottery pitcher with a curving handle that a hand is grasping. Out of the top of the pitcher shoots three little streams of water straight upward. Each one is painted a turquoise blue, has an internal line of current (movement), and a droplet or bead at the top.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Another compound glyph for Tlaahuililpan in this collection more specifically refers to an agricultural plot that is being watered.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

[t]laahuililpan

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Tlaahuililpan

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Osuna, Codex (Osu)
Date of Manuscript: 

1551–1565

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Grammar & Linguistics: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Landscape Features
Movement
Names (places)
Pottery, Earthenware
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
blue (turquoise)
green (light)
orange/terracotta
red
tan
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bell-shaped (upright)
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

barro, agua, riego, montaña, montañas, cerro, cerros, nombres de lugares, place names, topónimo, topónimos

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

tlaahuilia, to water something, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaahuilia
tlaahuilil(li), an irrigated garden or agricultural plot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaahuililli
-pan (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, En la Tierra de Riego

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Library of Congress Online Catalog and the World Digital Library, Osuna Codex, or Painting of the Governor, Mayors, and Rulers of Mexico, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_07324/. The original is located in the Biblioteca Nacional de España.

Image Source, Rights: 

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Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tlaahuililpan (Mdz27r)