Tolpetlac (Azca15)
This painted black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Tolpetlac (“At the [Place of the] Tule-Woven Mats”) shows a light brown hill or mountain (tepetl) with a red horizontal slit at the button, which would be the site where spring water would be able to emerge. This bell-shaped hill also has curling edges at the bottom on the right and left that are reminiscent of the curling ends of a horizontal stone. Above this hill is a bird’s eye view of a horizontal, rectangular woven mat (petlatl) painted yellow or gold. Above the mat in an elevation view are six curving reeds (tolin), painted the same color gold as the mat. The locative suffix (“-c”) is implicit in the hill.
Stephanie Wood
Today, Tolpetlac is spelled Tulpetlac. It is part of Ecatepec, in the State of Mexico.
Stephanie Wood
topetlacmotlallitomexica
Tolpetlac omotlalito [in] Mexica
Stephanie Wood
post-1550, possibly from the early seventeenth century.
Jeff Haskett-Wood
tules, petates, pueblos, topónimos, nombres de lugares
tol(in), reeds, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tolin
petla(tl), woven mat, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/petlatl
En [el Lugar de] los Petates de Tules
Stephanie Wood
The Codex Azcatitlan is also known as the Histoire mexicaine, [Manuscrit] Mexicain 59–64. It is housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and hosted on line by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=15&st=image
The Library of Congress is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.” But please cite Bibliothèque Nationale de France and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.
