Mitepec (Mdz33r)
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."
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mitepec.puo
Mitepec, pueblo
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c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
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arrows, flechas, hills, mountains, cerros, mountañas
“On the Hill of the Arrow” (apparently agreeing with Berdan and Anawalt) [Frances Karttunen, unpublished manuscript, used here with her permission.]
“On the Hill of the Arrow” (Berdan and Anawalt, 1992, vol. 1, p. )
“En el cerro de la flecha”
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Codex Mendoza, folio 47 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 76 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).