Tototepec (TR25r)

Tototepec (TR25r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Tototepec has two principal elements. One is a bird (tototl). It is standing in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. Its visible eye is open, its head and chest are light blue, its beak and feed are pink, its wing is brown, and its tail feathers are reddish. Behind the bird is an upright, bell-shaped, mottled green hill or mountain (tepetl), or -tepec, if the mountain serves as a semantic indicator for the locative suffix -c]. The hill has curly, rocky outcroppings on its slopes. Near its base is a white horizontal band. The full effect of the name may be something like, "On the Hill of the Bird" or "On the Mountain of the Bird."

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

tototepetl

Gloss Normalization: 

Tototepetl (or better, Tototepec)

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Telleriano-Remensis, Codex (TR)
Date of Manuscript: 

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

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

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
blue (sky blue)
brown
green (light)
pink
red
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bell-shaped (upright)
bird's eye view
facing right
horizontal
profile view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
front to back
Keywords: 

birds, pájaros, hills, cerros, mountains, montañas, feathers, plumas

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

toto(tl), bird, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tototl
tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-c (locative suffix), in, on, or at, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/c

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

En el Cerro del Pájaro

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 25 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f75.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

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Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

tototl (Mdz46r)

tototl (Mdz48r)

tototl (MH483r)

tepetl (Mdz38r)