Cuetzpaltepetonco (CQ)

This compound glyph for the place name Cuetzpaltepetonco ("On Little Lizard Hill") has three notable elements. One is a lizard (cuetzpalin) painted turquoise blue-green, shown in profile, facing to the viewer's left. Below the lizard there is a short, three-tiered pyramid (possibly a tetelli or a tzacualli). This construction does not enter into the place name in a phonetic way, so it is probably a semantic indicator. At the bottom of the compound is a green, bell-shaped hill or mountain (tepetl). There is a short, horizontal bar at the base of the hill or mountain. The diminutive (-ton-) and the locative (-co) are not shown visually, but perhaps the landscape provides a semantic locative.