Tliltepec (Mdz16v)

Tliltepec (Mdz16v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph represents the place name Tliltepec. It is a hill or mountain (tepetl) that is colored a dark purple or dark gray, seemingly meant to be black (tlilli). The horizontal lines at the bottom of the typically bell-shaped hill are red and yellow. Curling rocky outcroppings appear at the top and on the slopes of the hill.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

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."

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tliltepec. pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Tliltepec, 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 (visual not silent)

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Color names

Landscape Features

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black

purple (light)/lavender

red

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

bell-shaped (upright)

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

hills, mountains, black, black mountain

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlil(li), black ink or paint, or the color black, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlilli
tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-tepec, on the hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepec

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 16 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 43 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).