Tetepanco (Mdz27r)

Tetepanco (Mdz27r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name (as glossed), Tetepanco, includes two elements. One consists of two stones [tetl with alternating, wavy lines of purple and orange. The other element, above the stones, is a wall or construction (tepantli) that is a block of rectangular stones. These stones are lavender at the top, fading to white at the bottom. The pair of teeth (tlantli)--uppers with red gums--would normally provide a phonetic visual for the locative suffix "tlan," but we do not have evidence that the locative is "tlan" rather than "co" (and the latter is not shown visually).

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

tetepanco. puo

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Tetepanco, pueblo

Gloss/Text 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: 
phonetic dimensions
place name
Syntax: 
locative (not visual)
noun(s)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
reduplication (visual)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
orange/terracotta
purple
purple (light)/lavender
red
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
wavy
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
3
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
upward
multidirectional
Reading Order, Notes: 

The reading starts with the stones at the bottom, then rises to the wall, and then comes back down to the teeth (although the teeth are actually silent).

Keywords: 

stones, walls, piedras, murallas, nombres de lugares

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

te(tl), stone or rock, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
tepan(tli), wall or construction, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepantli
-co (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co
tlan(tli), tooth/teeth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlantli
-tlan (locative suffix), by, near, among, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 27 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 64 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).

See Also: 

tetl (Mdz48r)