Pantepec (TR25v)

Pantepec (TR25v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Pantepec shows a black and white, vertical, rectangular banner (panitl) in front of an upright, bell-shaped, green hill or mountain. The hill has curly rocky outcroppings on its slopes and a white horizontal band hear the hill's base.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The translation for this place name is "Banner Hill" or "Banner Mountain." Eloise Quiñones Keber (Codex Telleriano-Remensis, 1995, 205), places the town in present-day Michoacán state.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pātepetl

Gloss Normalization: 

Pantepetl (or better, Pantepec)

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flags, banners
Landscape Features
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black
green (light)
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bell-shaped (upright)
facing left
profile view
rectangular
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
front to back
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

pani(tl), banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl
tepe(tl), hill/mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Cerro o Montaña de la Bandera

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 25 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f76.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

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Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Nepopohualco (MH516v)

Tocuiltecatl (MH532r)

Tocuillan (MH612r)