Tochtepetonco (CQ)

Tochtepetonco (CQ)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Tochtepetonco ("On Little Rabbit Hill") has two principal features. One is the head of a rabbit (tochtli) shown in profile, looking to the viewer's left, made as a black line drawing and then painted a gray-brown. Its eye is open and it remains white. The second feature of the compound glyph is a green, bell-shaped sign for a hill or mountain (tepetl). It has a white, horizontal band near the base or bottom of the hill.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The reading would be something like "On the Little Rabbit Hill." The "-ton-" refers to smallness, the "-co" is a locative ("at" or "on"), and the other two parts refer to the hill or mountain and the presence of one or more rabbits.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tochtepetonco

Gloss Normalization:

Tochtepetonco

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:

diminutive (in gloss/text)

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:

Shapes and Perspectives:

bell-shaped (upright)

facing left

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Other Cultural Influences:

Mixtec

Keywords:

hills, mountains, cerros, montañas, rabbits, conejos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

toch(tli), rabbit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tochtli
tepe(tl), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
ton(tli), diminutive, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tontli
-co (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Additional Scholars' Interpretations:

P[ueblo] Tochtepetonco “On the Little Hill of the Rabbit.” Matthew T. McDavitt, “Placenames in the Codex Quetzalecatzin,” unpublished essay shared 2-21-2018.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:

Ofelia Cruz Morales

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 on line. It is not copyright protected.

Historical Contextualizing Image: