tepetl (Mdz2r)

This element for hill or mountain (tepetl) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Tenayocan. The hill is not a phonetic contributor to the place name, but a silent locative. We have removed the ramparts from the center of the hill in the original glyph; we have also repaired the loss of green paint before the part that was removed. What remains is a classic bell shape, painted a two-tone green, with red and yellow horizontal lines at the bottom. The curling, rocky outcroppings that normally appear in the middle of the slopes of the hill on the right and left are here lower, closer to the final curve of the bell. The red line wraps around the yellow line at each end, following the curve of the bottom of the bell shape.