Tepecuacuilco(Mdz8r)

Tepecuacuilco(Mdz8r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Tepecuacuilco shows a classic hill or mountain (tepetl) in two tones of green, rocky outcroppings on the slopes, and red and yellow horizontal stripes near the base. On top of the hill is the head of a priest called a cuacuilli. It is a male head in profile, facing to the viewer's left. His long hair is bound with a white string or leather thong. Another piece goes around his forehead and a third one runs from the top of his head down the edge of his face, and ends closed to the end of his lock of wrapped hair.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

tepequacuilco

Gloss Normalization: 

Tepecuacuilco

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: 
cuil (tracking)
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (less obviously marked)
Landscape Features
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
gray
green (dark)
green (light)
purple (light)/lavender
red
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bell-shaped (upright)
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

mountains, hills

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

tepe(tl), hill, mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-cuac, at the top of, above, at the point, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuac

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 8 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 26, 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).