Tepoxaco (Mdz26r)

Tepoxaco (Mdz26r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Tepoxaco (perhaps "At the [Site of] Spongy Rock") features a stone (tetl) with dots around it that suggest it is crumbly or spongy (poxacti). The locative suffix (-co) is not shown visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

tepoxaco. puo

Gloss Normalization: 

Tepoxaco, 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: 
place name
Syntax: 
adjective
locative (not visual)
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Dirt, Sand, Soil
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
orange/terracotta
purple (light)/lavender
Shapes and Perspectives: 
dotted, granular, textured
horizontal
oval (see also leaf shaped)
wavy
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
outward (from inside out)
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

te(tl), stone(s) or rock(s), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
poxac(tic), spongy or loose, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/poxactic
-co (locative suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 26 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 62 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).