Tepoztitlan (Mdz40v)

Tepoztitlan (Mdz40v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Tepoztitlan shows a two-tone green bell-shaped mountain with its usual rocky outcroppings and red and yellow horizontal stripes at the base, but it has a wedge shape cut out of the top of the mountain, which may suggest it has been chopped by a copper axe (tepoztli). The locative suffix (-titlan) is not shown specifically in a visual way, but the local landscape shown in the compound may serve as a semantic locative.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Date of Manuscript: 

by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
Keywords: 

hills, cerros, mountains, cut, cortado

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 
Image Source: 
Image Source, Rights: 

Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)

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