Tlacotepec (Mdz13v)

Tlacotepec (Mdz13v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Tlacotepec shows a group of three plants that apparently provided the sticks or twigs (tlacotl) for making arrow shafts. These shafts are a terracotta color, with green leaves, and red, white, and blue flowers. The locative suffix (-c) (as given in the gloss) is not shown visually, but it combines with -tepe- to form -tepec, a visual locative suffix meaning "on the hill" or "on the mountain." The hill or mountain is a standard two-tone green bell shape with curly rocky outcroppings on its slopes and red and yellow horizontal stripes at its base.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tlacotepec . pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Tlacotepec, pueblo

Gloss 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:

place name

Syntax:

locative (not visual, but represented semantically)

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

bell-shaped (upright)

horizontal

frontal view

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

tripartite

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

mountains, hills, cerros, montañas, sticks, twigs, wood, madera, flechas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

-tepec, on the hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepec
tlaco(tl), osier twigs, sticks, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacotl

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 13 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 37 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).