Tecuantepec (TR41r)

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: 
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Landscape Features
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Teeth Protruding/Noticeable
Tongue Protruding/Noticeable
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
brown
gray
green (light)
red
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bell-shaped (upright)
facing left
profile view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
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)