tepetl (Mdz52r)
This element for hill or mountain (tepetl) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Ocelotepec. The removal of the jaguar at the top of the hill has left some distortion. But the hill is still largely bell shaped, two-tone green, with curling, rocky outcroppings on the slopes, and red and yellow horizontal stripes at the base.
Stephanie Wood
c. 1541, by 1553 at the latest
Xitlali Torres
mountains, hills, montañas, cerros
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tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
hill or mountain
Codex Mendoza, folio 52 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 114 of 188.
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).