Itzcuintepec (Mdz16r)
This compound glyph for the place name Itzcuintepec has two principal elements. One is the dog [itzcuintli. It is white with black spots. Fangs protrude from its mouth. The other element is the hill or mountain, with its classic two-tone green bell shape, horizontal yellow and red stripes near the base, and its curly rocky outcroppings on the slopes. The locative suffix (-c) (as given in the gloss) is not shown visually, but it combines with -tepe- to form -tepec, a visual locative suffix meaning "on the hill" or "on the mountain."
Stephanie Wood
yzcuintepec. puo
Izcuintepec, pueblo
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c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest
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hills, mountains, dogs, izcuintle
![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Izcuintepec16r.jpeg?itok=Legz1xOs)
izcuin(tli), dog, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-tepec (locative suffix), on the hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepec
Codex Mendoza, folio 16 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 42 of 188.
The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).