Tetzcoco (Mdz3v)

This pair of compound glyphs represents the place name, Tetzcoco. Each of these compound glyphs has elements that can be described separately, but there is a visual ligature (a black line) connecting them. One, on the left, consists of a bent arm with a protruding bone and water (atl) coming out of the top. A red and a yellow band at the top of the arm seems to point to the bone as protruding from the interior of the arm, where the shoulder would be. The details at the top of the arm thus draw attention to the shoulder (acolli). The compound glyph on the right combines three stone (tetl) peaks in the shape of a mountain (tepetl}). The stone of the peaks has the usual wavy, alternating terracotta-colored and purple lines, along with curling, rocky outcroppings on the slopes. At the bottom of these combined peaks are the red and yellow horizontal lines at the base of the mountain that are typical of the tepetl. Two flowers [presumably, xochitl) emerge between the peaks. These have green stems, a large red center, and small yellow circles around that red center. The locative suffix (-co) is not shown visually unless the landscape provides a semantic locative.