Tepetlixpan (MH868v)

Tepetlixpan (MH868v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the place name Tepetlixpan (“In Front of the Mountain”) shows a hill or mountain (tepetl) with a large eye (ixtli) painted over it. The eye is a phonetic indicator for the locative suffix, -ixpan, in front of.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Note how this eye has a European style, different from the starry eyes of the Codex Mendoza of about two decades earlier.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tepetlixpā

Gloss Normalization:

Tepetlixpan

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

phonetic dimensions

place name

Syntax:

locative (visual not silent)

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

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:

frontal view

Keywords:

barrios, montañas, cerros, enfrente, ojos, nombres de lugares

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
ix(tli), eye, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtli
-ixpan, in front of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixpan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Enfrente de la Montaña, o Delante de la Montaña

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 868v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=809&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: