Ichcatlan (Mdz55r)

Ichcatlan (Mdz55r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a green, white, and red drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Ichcatlan.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This compound glyph for the place name Ichcatlan comprises a white cotton ball (ichcatl) sitting in its green stem atop two upper front teeth (tlantli) in red gums. The teeth provide the phonetic value for the locative suffix, -tlan (by, among).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

ychcatlan. pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Ichcatlan, pueblo

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

locative (visual not silent)

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Names (places)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

dotted, granular, textured

frontal view

tripartite

U-shapes (any direction)

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

cotton balls, bolls, teeth, place, locative,

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

ichca(tl), cotton, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ichcatl
tlan(tli), tooth/teeth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlantli
-tlan, by, near, among, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan

Additional Scholars' Interpretations:

"By the Cotton" (Whittaker, 2021, 101)

Whittaker's Transliteration:

ICHCA-tlan

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 55 recto, https://codicemendoza.inah.gob.mx/inicio.php?lang=english

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).