Itzcuintepec (Mdz16r)

Itzcuintepec (Mdz16r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

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."

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

yzcuintepec. pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Izcuintepec, pueblo

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

locative (visual not silent)

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Landscape Features

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

bell-shaped (upright)

dotted, granular, textured

spotted or mottled

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

hills, mountains, dogs, izcuintle

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

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

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 16 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 42 of 188.

Image Source, Rights:

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).