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:

Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)

Date of Manuscript:

by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

locative (not visual, but represented semantically)

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Landscape Features

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Colors:

Keywords:

hills, cerros, mountains, cut, cortado

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-tlan (locative suffix), place, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan
xic(tli)>, umbilical, peephole, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xictli

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 42 recto, https://codicemendoza.inah.gob.mx/inicio.php?lang=english

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)

Tepoztitlan (Mdz40v)Simplex Glyph

tepoztli (Mdz8r)

Tepoztitlan (Mdz40v)
Simplex Glyph