Tecuantepec (TR41r) | Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs

Tecuantepec (TR41r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a multicolored painting of the compound glyph for the place name, Tecuantepec ("On Jaguar Hill").

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Telleriano-Remensis, Codex (TR)

Date of Manuscript:

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

Syntax:

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Landscape Features

Teeth Protruding/Noticeable

Tongue Protruding/Noticeable

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

bell-shaped (upright)

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

Keywords:

animales feroces, jaguares, cerros, montañas, topónimos, nombres de lugares, Oaxaca, Tehuantepec

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tecuani, wild animal, people-eater, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuani
-tepec, on the hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepec
tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

En el Cerro del Jaguar

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 41 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f107.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights:

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Historical Contextualizing Image:

See Also:

Tecuantepec (Mdz13v)