Hueipolco (T1745:2:109)

Hueipolco (T1745:2:109)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Hueipolco shows a hill or mountain with a small ceramic pot on top (comitl), providing a phonetic indicator for the -co locative suffix. The Hueipol- part of the name refers to something large, presumably the mountain or hill that is pictured underneath the ceramic jug or pot. The four volutes--two at the sides of the bottom of the hill and two at the top, one on each side of the pot--are unexplained, as is the blue-green color of the hill.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

Veipulco

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Hueipolco

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
AGN Tierras 1735, exp. 2, f. 109
Date of Manuscript: 

1566

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Coyoacan

Semantic Categories: 
phonetic dimensions
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
syllable: co/con/com (from comitl, pot/jug)
visual plural (multiples of objects)
visual sound
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Containers, Dishes, Eating Utensils
Landscape Features
Names (places)
Pottery, Earthenware
Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition, Languages
Shapes and Perspectives: 
size (relative, intentional)
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
volute(s)
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
3
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

hills, mountain, cerros, montañas, cerámica, barro, cantaros, ollas, volutas, nombres de lugares, topónimos, place names, earthenware, ceramic, ceramics, cerámicas, jug, pot, olla, jarra, jarro, vessel, vessels, vasija de cerámica, cántaro, cántaros, xoctli, xoctepi, huicolli, atlacuihuani, tecomitl, tecontontli, apilolli

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

huei, large, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huei
hueipol, something large, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hueipol
popoloca, to speak a foreign language, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/popoloca
popolotza, to speak unintelligibly, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/popolotza
camapoloa, to blunder in speech, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/camapoloa
com(itl), ceramic jug, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/comitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

En El Lugar Grande

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Single-page codex, Archivo General de la Nación, México, Ramo de Tierras, vol. 1735, exp. 2, fol. 109.  

Image Source, Rights: 

The Archivo General de la Nación (AGN), México, holds the original manuscript. This image is published here under a Creative Commons license, asking that you cite the AGN and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.

See Also: 

Milpolco (T1735:2:109)