Tepehuexoyocan (Osu34v)

Tepehuexoyocan (Osu34v)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This painted compound Nahuatl hieroglyph represents the place name Tepehuexoyocan (perhaps "Place on the Mountain with Lots of Willow Trees"). It shows a standard, green, bell-shaped mountain or hill (tepetl) with its red and yellow slits tucked into the base. This landscape contributes to the semantics of the place name. Atop the tree is a vertical tree with a brown trunk and green foliage on a leader and two branches. Contrary to the reference to a "white" willow, this one is green, which is typical of most glyphs in this collection for the huexotl (see below). The -yocan locative suffix is not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The contextualizing image shows how this town and its neighbor, Ocoyacac, both fall withing the jurisdiction of an encomendero, a Spanish with a grant (encomienda) giving him the right to extract tribute in coin, kind, or labor from these communities.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

tepehuexoyocan

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Tepehuexoyocan

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Osuna, Codex (Osu)

Date of Manuscript:

1551–1565

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

Grammar & Linguistics:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Landscape Features

Names (places)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

bell-shaped (upright)

tripartite

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

sauce, willows, hills, mountains, cerro, cerros, montañas, nombres de lugares, place names, topónimo, topónimos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
huexo(tl), white willow tree, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huexotl
-yocan (locative suffix), a place with a lot of the preceding noun, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yocan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, "Lugar en la Montaña con Muchos Sauces Blancos"

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Library of Congress Online Catalog and the World Digital Library, Osuna Codex, or Painting of the Governor, Mayors, and Rulers of Mexico, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_07324/. The original is located in the Biblioteca Nacional de España.

Image Source, Rights:

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Historical Contextualizing Image: