Temazcaltepec (CQ)

Temazcaltepec (CQ)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph represents the place name Temazcaltepec ("On Steam Bath Hill"). It has two main features. One is a building that houses a steam bath (temazcalli). It is a simple, white frontal-facing calli. The other feature is a greenish-brown hill or mountain (tepetl) that barely resembles the tepetl glyph, seemingly evolving toward a landscape painting. The locative suffix (-tepec, "on the hill") is incorporated with the tepetl.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

temazcaltepec

Gloss Normalization: 

Temazcaltepec

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Quetzalecatzin, Codex (CQ)
Date of Manuscript: 

covers ruling men and women of Tecamachalco through 1593

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

southern Puebla state

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Landscape Features
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Wood, wooden things
Colors: 
brown
green (light)
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
right angle(s)
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Other Cultural Influences: 
Mixtec
Keywords: 

place, lugar, name, nombre, temazcales, saunas, sweat lodges, steam baths, hills, cerros, montañas

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

temazcal(li), steam bath house, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temazcalli
tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-tepec (locative suffix), on the hill, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepec

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

P[ueblo] Temazcaltepec “On the Hill of the Sweat Bath.” Matthew T. McDavitt, “Placenames in the Codex Quetzalecatzin,” unpublished essay shared 2-21-2018.

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

En el Cerro del Temazcal

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

The Codex Quetzalecatzin, aka Mapa de Ecatepec-Huitziltepec, Codex Ehecatepec-Huitziltepec, or Charles Ratton Codex. Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017590521/

Image Source, Rights: 

The Library of Congress, current custodian of this pictorial Mexican manuscript, hosts a digital version online. It is not copyright protected.

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

temazcalli (CQ)