Ayotzintepec (Mdz46r)
This compound glyph for the place name Ayotzintepec is unlike the other Ayotzintepec in the Codex Mendoza (see below, right), which is also from the same page. This one does not obviously point to a small turtle or a squash/gourd, as the other one does. This one is a small stepped pyramid painted terracotta in color. The hill or mountain is typically bell shaped, painted a two-tone green, and has vertical stripes in red and yellow at its base. The locative suffix (-c) is not shown visually, but it combines with -tepe- to form -tepec, a visual locative suffix meaning "on the hill" or "on the mountain."
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The glosses for the two similar place names from folio 46 recto are slightly different, but the variations are not significant. The visuals for this place would suggest a reading of something like Teteltepec, Temple Hill or Pyramid Hill. See a comparable tetelli below, right.
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ayotzintepec/puo
Ayotzintepec, pueblo
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c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
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mountains, hills
ayo(tl), turtle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayotl
tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-tepec, on the hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepec
"On the Hill of the Little Turtle" [Frances Karttunen, unpublished manuscript, used here with her permission.]
Codex Mendoza, folio 46 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 102 of 188.
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).
