Tepetzinco (MH549r)

Tepetzinco (MH549r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the place name Tepetzinco (“At the Little Hill") shows a frontal view of a hill or mountain (tepetl). The glyph is verging on a European-style landscape painting, with a flowering cactus, crags, and grasses added to convey something of the environment. Also, the contours of the mountain are shaded, for a three-dimensional effect. Some of the shading is gray, and some of it is red.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

SANCT ESTEVAN
TEPETZICUN

Gloss Normalization:

San Esteban Tepetzinco

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:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Landscape Features

Names (places)

Plants, Flora

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

shading and parallel line hatching

three-dimensionality

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

cerros, hills, places, lugares, pueblos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-tzin, diminutive indicator, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzin-1
-co, (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

En el Cerro Pequeño

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 549r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=177&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: