Hueitepec (CmpRG)

This is a simplex glyph naming the town called Hueitepec (also spelled Hueytepec). This hieroglyphs is featured in the 1580 Relación Geográfica de Cempoala (originally Cempohuallan, and now Zempoala, Hidalgo). Following the accompanying alphabetic gloss (see below), the name consists of huei, “big, large,” tepetl), “hill, mountain,” and the locative -c, “in, on, at.” This locative is not visualized, but the hill serves as a semantic indictor of place. This hill is represented in a frontal view, and it appears as a very large, somewhat amorphous shape. The breadth of the hill is a visual recognition of the term "huei." It is topped by two maguey plants that indicate the flora found in the area. The hill is outlined in black, is colored with greens and browns, and has a series of wavy black lines inside of it suggesting its contours. Its base shows a fairly typical element of three outlined horizontal bars, the upper one curling around the other two, colored in a faded red.