Coatepec (Azca12) | Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs

Coatepec (Azca12)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a multicolored detail of a painting of the compound glyph for the place name, Coatepec.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Azcatitlan, Codex (Azca)

Date of Manuscript:

post-1550, but content about the migration from Aztlan to about 1527

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

perhaps Tlatelolco, Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

Syntax:

locative (not visual)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Landscape Features

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Tongue Protruding/Noticeable

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inward (from outside in)

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

coa(tl), snake, serpent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coatl
tepe(tl), hill, mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-tepec, on the hill, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepec

Image Source:

The Codex Azcatitlan is also known as the Histoire mexicaine, [Manuscrit] Mexicain 59–64. It is housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and hosted on line by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=12&st=image

Image Source, Rights:

The Library of Congress is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.” But please cite Bibliothèque Nationale de France and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.

Historical Contextualizing Image: