Ichcateopan (Mdz37r)

Ichcateopan (Mdz37r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph represents the place name Ichcateopan. It shows a white, stepped temple (teopantli) in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. On the top of the temple is a bit of a cotton (ichcatl) plant, in a frontal view, with a green sepal and a tripartite cluster of cotton bolls.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

ychcateopā. pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Ichcateopan, 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:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Names (places)

Plants, Flora

Religion (Indigenous)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

green (dark)

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

cotton, cotton bolls, temples, pyramids, architecture, algodón, arquitectura, templos, pirámides

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

ichca(tl), cotton, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ichcatl
teopantli, temple, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teopantli

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 37 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 84 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).