Pantepec (Mdz16r)

Pantepec (Mdz16r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Pantepec shows an upright, rectangular, white flag (panitl)] on top of a hill or mountain (tepetl). The mountain is a standard two-tone green bell shape, with red and yellow horizontal stripes toward the base, and curling, 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

Added Analysis: 

The flag could be meant to be plural or singular in the place name.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pantepec.puo

Gloss Normalization: 

Pantepec, pueblo

Gloss 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 (not visual, but represented semantically)
locative (visual not silent)
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flags, banners
Landscape Features
Names (places)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
green (dark)
green (light)
red
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bell-shaped (upright)
rectangular
right angle(s)
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

mountains, hills, montañas, cerros, banderas, flags, banners

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

pan(itl), flag, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl
-tepec, on the hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepec 

Karttunen’s Interpretation: 

"Banner Hill" [Frances Karttunen, unpublished manuscript, used here with her permission.]

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

"On the Hill" or "On the Hill of Banners" (Berdan and Anawalt, 1992, vol. 1, p. )

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

"En el Cerro de la Bandera" o "En la Montaña de la Bandera"

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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).

See Also: 

tepetl (Mdz16r)

tepetl (Mdz16r)

panitl (Mdz20r)

panitl (Mdz20v)