Tepetitlan (Mdz31r)
Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:
This is a green, red, white, and yellow painting of the compound glyph for the place name Tepetitlan.
Description, Credit:
Stephanie Wood
Gloss Analysis, Credit:
Stephanie Wood
Source Manuscript:
Date of Manuscript:
c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest
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Writing Features:
Cultural Content & Iconography:
Cultural Content, Credit:
Stephanie Wood
Shapes and Perspectives:
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):
Keywords:
mountains, hills
Glyph or Iconographic Image:
![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Tepetitlan31r.jpeg?itok=7_BmrEcX)
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):
tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-tlan (locative suffix), place, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan
Image Source:
Codex Mendoza, folio 31 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 72 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).