Nanacatepec (HJ276:79:pt3:242r)

This compound place name glyph appears on a pictorial manuscript submitted by indigenous petitioners on or around October 24, 1549, as evidence during a land dispute between the Cuernavacan community of Tetela and the Marquesado del Valle over the alleged usurpation seventeen years previously of a parcel of community land by the Marqués who, according to several witnesses, had planted the property with sugar cane (see Historical Context Image). One of the pictorials found in the so-called Códice del Marquesado del Valle, it pictures the place glyph on the parcel near a rendition of a cane plant on its left side and a body of water (probably an irrigation canal) on its right. For more information, consult Von Mentz, Cuauhnahuac, 2008, 472; Códices indígenas de algunos pueblos del Marquesado, 1933 and 1883, “Códice núm. 27; and Santiago Sánchez, Códices del Marquesado del Valle, 2003, 200-204.