Tecpatepec (Mdz13r)

Tecpatepec (Mdz13r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Tecpatepec includes two notable elements. One is a group of three flint knives (tecpatl)]. These are leaf-shaped, upright, pointed blades that are red in the top half and white in the bottom, the two colors being divided on an angle. The other notable element is a hill or mountain (tepetl). This is the typical two-tone green color in a bell-shape with added curly rocky outcroppings on both slopes and horizontal red and yellow stripes near the base. 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:

tecpatepec.pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Tecpatepec, 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 (visual not silent)

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Landscape Features

Names (places)

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

bell-shaped (upright)

horizontal

leaf, marquise, pointed oval

pointed (see also spiky)

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

vertical, upright

Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation):

Number of Parts, Other / Comment:

We are counting the group of flint knives as one element.

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

mountains, hills, montañas, cerros, knife, pedernales

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tecpa(tl), flint knife, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpatl
tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-c (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/c
-tepec, on the hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepec

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 13 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 36 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).