Tepetlapan (Mdz22r) | Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs

Tepetlapan (Mdz22r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a orange, purple, and yellow painting of the compound glyph for the place name Tepetlapan.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tepetlapā.pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Tepetlapan, pueblo

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

Syntax:

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

orange/terracotta

purple (light)/lavender

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

Keywords:

places, lugares, toponimios, petates, piedras

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
petla(tl), woven mat, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/petlatl
-pan (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 22 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 54 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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: