Cacallotepec (CQ)
This compound sign stands for the place name Cacallotepec ("On Nut Tree Hill" or "On Raven Hill"?). The glyph has a tree in front of a hill or mountain. The tree has a green trunk that bifurcates into two groups of three fronds each. These are left uncolored. The hill or mountain (tepetl) is a green-brown, rounded, bell shape.
Stephanie Wood
We are giving the place name (and the noun at its root) the double "l," as it does not obviously appear to refer to ravens (cacalotl or cacalli). It remains to be investigated whether a nut shell cacallotl can also refer to a nut tree. The hill or mountain is verging on iconography, as it does not have the horizontal stripes at the bottom or the rocky outcroppings on the slopes.
Stephanie Wood
cacalotepec
Cacallotepec
Stephanie Wood
covers ruling men and women of Tecamachalco through 1593
nuts, nueces, trees, árboles, plants, plantas, cerros, montañas, hills, mountains
cacallo(tl), a nut shell, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cacallotl
P[ueblo] Cacalotepe[c] “At Raven Hill” [depicts cacaloxochitl iztac flower (Plumeria rubra) for phonetic value]. Matthew T. McDavitt, “Placenames in the Codex Quetzalecatzin,” unpublished essay shared 2-21-2018.
En la Montaña de la Cáscara de la Flor de Mayo
Ofelia Cruz Morales (que sugiere que cacallotl quiere decir, la cáscara de la flor de mayo)
The Codex Quetzalecatzin, aka Mapa de Ecatepec-Huitziltepec, Codex Ehecatepec-Huitziltepec, or Charles Ratton Codex. Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017590521/
The Library of Congress, current custodian of this pictorial Mexican manuscript, hosts a digital version online. It is not copyright protected.