Tetzcoco (TR26v)

Tetzcoco (TR26v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Tetzcoco shows a frontal view of a small, green, bell-shaped hill or mountain (tetzcotl) with rocks protruding on the slopes. The hill also has a white horizontal band near the base. In front of the hill are two terracotta-colored ceramic pots (comitl), one sitting on the throat of the other. Each ceramic pot has three visible handles, one in front and one each on the sides.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The small mountain provides the start to the place name, Tetzcoco (from tetzcotl, found in the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl). The two pots (visually reduplicated) convey the presence in the name of the -coco (an alphabetic and oral reduplication). If tetzco- is indeed correct as the start of the place name, then one of the pots would be a phonetic complement and the other would provide the final -co.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

tezcuco

Gloss Normalization: 

Tetzcoco

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Telleriano-Remensis, Codex (TR)
Date of Manuscript: 

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
phonetic dimensions
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
reduplication (visual)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Ceramics, Pottery
Containers, Dishes, Eating Utensils
Landscape Features
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
green (light)
orange/terracotta
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bell-shaped (upright)
circle, circular or rounded
frontal view
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Number of Parts, Other / Comment: 

One could count the pots twice, and if so, come to a total of three elements. But if we see them as a pair that function as a pair, then there are two elements.

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
front to back
Keywords: 

hills, mountains, cerros, montañas, jarras, jugs, ollas, pitchers

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

Tetzcoco, a very important altepetl founded by the Acolhua people, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetzcoco
tetzco(tl), small mountain or hill, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tetzcotl/65110
comi(tl), ceramic pot or jug, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/comitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

En la Montaña Pequeña

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood (drawing from the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl)

Image Source: 

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 26 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f78.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

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Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tetzcoco (Mdz3v)