Cozcacuauhtepec (CQ)

Cozcacuauhtepec (CQ)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Cozcacuauhtepetonco ("On Little Vulture Hill") has two main elements. One is the head (shown in profile, looking to the viewer's right) of a vulture (cozcacuauhtli). The feathers on the back of its head are wispy, pointing upward somewhat. Its eye is open, as is its beak. It is has been drawn with a black line and it appears not to have been painted. The hill or mountain (tepetl) behind it is a greenish-brown, somewhat mottled. the base of the mountain is indefinite and merges with other, surrounding mountains.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The cozcacuauhtli has a hieroglyphic shape, although it does not feature the phonetic indicator that distinguishes it from an eagle, the necklace (cozcatl), seen in examples provided below. The cozcacuauhtli is a day sign in the Mesoamerican calendar, the tonalpohualli. The mountain here is straying away from hieroglyphic writing somewhat, and leaning toward landscape painting. The diminutive (-ton-) is not shown visually, nor is the locative suffix (-co), but the locative may be represented semantically by the landscape features of the compound.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

cozcaquauhte
pectongo

Gloss Normalization: 

Cozcacuauhtepetonco

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Date of Manuscript: 

covers ruling men and women of Tecamachalco through 1593

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

southern Puebla state

Semantic Categories: 
Writing Features: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
Other Cultural Influences: 
Keywords: 

place, lugar, name, nombre

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

Cozcaquauhtli Tepetonco “On the Little Hill of the King Vultures.” Matthew T. McDavitt, “Placenames in the Codex Quetzalecatzin,” unpublished essay shared 2-21-2018.

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

En el Cerro del Buitre

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

The Codex Quetzalecatzin, aka Mapa de Ecatepec-Huitziltepec, Codex Ehecatepec-Huitziltepec, or Charles Ratton Codex. Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017590521/

Image Source, Rights: 

The Library of Congress, current custodian of this pictorial Mexican manuscript, hosts a digital version online. It is not copyright protected.

Historical Contextualizing Image: