Ixcuepaliztepec (TR28r)

Ixcuepaliztepec (TR28r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Ixcuepaliztepec shows a person on the top of the frontal view of a bell-shaped hill or mountain (tepetl), or -tepec, on or at the hills or mountain]. The person sitting on top of the hill has his knees up, which is the sitting posture of a man. He appears to be unclothed, and he has is back to the viewer. Literally, his eyes and face (ixtli) are turned (cuepa) away. The -liztli refers to this state of being turned away. The mountain has the usual curling rocky outcroppings on its slopes and a white horizontal band toward its base.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The overall impact of the place name could be "The Mountain That is Turned Away," with the human's position being a semantic indicator about the positioning of face of the mountain. The footprints turning different directions around the mountain, as shown in the contextualizing image, may also suggest a turning around.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

ixcuepa
liztepetl

Gloss Normalization: 

Ixcuepaliztepetl (or better, Ixcuepaliztepec)

Source Manuscript: 
Telleriano-Remensis, Codex (TR)
Date of Manuscript: 

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Landscape Features
Names (places)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black
green (light)
tan
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bell-shaped (upright)
facing right
horizontal
profile view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

ix(tli), eyes, face, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtli
ixcuepaliz(tli), inside-out, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixcuepaliztli
cuepa, verb, to turn, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuepa
liz(tli), deverbal noun suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/liztli
tepe(tl), hill-mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

En la Montaña de Espaldas

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 28 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f81.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

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Historical Contextualizing Image: