Itzcuintepec (Mdz16r)

Itzcuintepec (Mdz16r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound Nahuatl hieroglyph for the place name Itzcuintepec ("On Dog Hill") has two principal elements. One is the dog (itzcuintli) in a profile view facing left. It is white with black spots. Fangs protrude from its mouth. The other element is the hill or mountain, upon which the dog crouches. The hill or mountain has a classic two-tone green bell shape, horizontal yellow and red stripes near the base, and 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

Descripción del glifo o de la imagen iconográfica:

Este jeroglífico compuesto náhuatl para el topónimo Itzcuintepec (“En la colina del perro”) comprende dos elementos principales: el primero es el can (itzcuintli) de perfil que mira hacia la izquierda, de pelaje blanco con manchas negras y colmillos que sobresalen de la boca; el segundo es la colina o montaña sobre la que se agazapa el animal, la cual está plasmada en la forma clásica de campana pintada de verde bitonal, con bandas horizontales rojas y amarillas cerca de la base y afloramientos rocosos ondulantes o retorcidos en las laderas. El sufijo locativo (-c) que se menciona en la glosa no aparece de manera visual, pero se combina con -tepe- para formar -tepec, un sufijo locativo visual que significa “en la colina” o “en la montaña”.

Traducción de la descripción, crédito:

Ricardo A. Iriarte Valdés

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

yzcuintepec. pu^o

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Izcuintepec, pueblo

Gloss/Text 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: Dogs

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, nombres de lugares

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).