Tepech (MH484r)

Tepech (MH484r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph of the personal name Tepech has a foundation (tepechtli) wall underpinned with two stones (tetl). The black line drawing of the foundation consists of two rows of alternating horizontal blocks. The two stones are drawn with curling ends and diagonal stripes.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The stones (tetl) are there to provide the phonetic start to the word tepechtli, which also ensures that reading versus something like wall at the top of a building (which would be tenantli). Thus, we consider this compound to have two elements, and the phonetic tetl is where the reading begins and then goes upward. The Codex Mendoza has a glyph for tepechtli that shows a foot standing on the foundation, seemingly also meant to distinguish it from a higher wall.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

tepech

Gloss Normalization: 

Tepech

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
horizontal
rectangular
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

cimientos, construcciones, foundations, construction, paredes

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 484r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=47&st=image.

Image Source, Rights: 

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

tepechtli (Mdz21v)

tenamitl (Mdz10r)

tetl (MH484r)