Mitepec (Mdz33r)

Mitepec (Mdz33r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Mitepec has two elements, an arrow (mitl) and a hill or mountain (tepetl). The arrow is horizontal, lying on top of the mountain. It has standard colors, such as the yellow of the acatl reed, a red tip, a red spot at the back end, and decorations of a brown eagle feather and a while ball of down feathers in between. The reed has a hash mark in the center of the arrow’s shaft, which may suggest a segmentation typical of cane or bamboo. The mountain is a standard two-town green bell shape with horizontal red and yellow 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

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

mitepec.puo

Gloss Normalization: 

Mitepec, pueblo

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, but 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: 
Feathers
Landscape Features
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
bell-shaped (upright)
horizontal
segmented
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

arrows, flechas, hills, mountains, cerros, mountañas

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Karttunen’s Interpretation: 

“On the Hill of the Arrow” (apparently agreeing with Berdan and Anawalt) [Frances Karttunen, unpublished manuscript, used here with her permission.]

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

“On the Hill of the Arrow” (Berdan and Anawalt, 1992, vol. 1, p. )

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

“En el cerro de la flecha”

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 47 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 76 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).

See Also: 

mitl (Mdz40r)

mitl (Mdz2r)

mitl (Mdz33r)