Tochtepec (CQ)

Tochtepec (CQ)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Tochtepec ("On Rabbit Hill") consists of two main elements, a rabbit (tochtli) head (in profile, facing to the viewer's right) and a hill or mountain (tepetl). The locative suffix "c" is implied and attaches to the glyph of the hill, which is a place that provides an inherent location. The rabbit's head is a simple, black-line drawing. The hill is a green bell shape with a short horizontal line near the base.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This glyph is more clearly of the traditional design compared to the style of many other hills on this manuscript that are nearing a landscape painting style. Still, the rocky outcroppings on the top or slopes of many earlier tepetl signs are no longer there. The coloring of red and yellow on the horizontal stripe are gone, too. See below for a comparison from the earlier Codex Mendoza.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

teocholcotochtepec

Gloss Normalization: 

Teocholco Tochtepec

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Quetzalecatzin, Codex (CQ)
Date of Manuscript: 

covers ruling men and women of Tecamachalco through 1593

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

southern Puebla state

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Landscape Features
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
green (light)
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bell-shaped (upright)
facing right
profile view
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Other Cultural Influences: 
Mixtec
Keywords: 

rabbits, conejos, cerros, montañas, hills, mountains

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

toch(tli), rabbit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tochtli
tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-c (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/c

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

Teocholco Tochtepec “Among the Stone Fences on Rabbit Hill.” Matthew T. McDavitt, “Placenames in the Codex Quetzalecatzin,” unpublished essay shared 2-21-2018.

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

"En el Cerro del Conejo"

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

The Codex Quetzalecatzin, aka Mapa de Ecatepec-Huitziltepec, Codex Ehecatepec-Huitziltepec, or Charles Ratton Codex. Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017590521/

Image Source, Rights: 

The Library of Congress, current custodian of this pictorial Mexican manuscript, hosts a digital version online. It is not copyright protected.

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

tochtli (CQ)

Teocholco (CQ)

Tochtepec (Mdz46r)