Tepenacaztlan (MH870r)

Tepenacaztlan (MH870r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Tepenacaztlan (“By the Side of the Mountain”) shows a bell-shaped mountain (tepetl) with a simple line. To the right of the mountain and attached to it is a human ear (nacaztli). This is not meant literally, but refers to the side of the mountain. The locative suffix (-tlan, here meaning “by”) is not shown visually, but it is implied.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

“By the Side of the Woods” may be another place name in this collection (although it could alternatively refer to the “Place of the Guanacaztli–or Guanacaste, in Mexican Spanish–Trees,” as Frances Karttunen has suggested. Looking farther afield at nacaztli, the personal name “Nacazpatlac” (meaning a “flat wide ear”) seems to have been a popular Nahua name in this period (1560).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

adverb

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Landscape Features

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

bell-shaped (upright)

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

left to right

Keywords:

orejas, al lado

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
nacaz(tli), ear or side, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nacaztli
-tlan (locative suffix), by or among, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Al Lado de la Montaña

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 870r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=812&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: