Xilotepec (Mdz8r)

Xilotepec (Mdz8r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

In this compound glyph for the place name Xilotepec, there are two principal elements. Two small, tender ears of corn/maize (xilotl) sit atop a mountain or hill, one that has the classic two-toned bell shape, curling rocky outcroppings on the slopes, and red and yellow horizontal stripes on the bottom. The ears are predominantly yellow (on the left) and red (right). The have green leaves at their base and tassels of the opposing color coming off the top. Each one also has two, vertical, black hash marks on its front.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The locative suffix (-c) adheres to the "tepe" root, resulting in a meaning of at or on the mountain.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

xilotepec.puo

Gloss Normalization: 

Xilotepec, 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: 
Corn, Maize
Landscape Features
Names (places)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
green (dark)
green (light)
red
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bell-shaped (upright)
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

hills, mountains

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

-tepec, on the hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepec

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 8 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 26, 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).

See Also: 

xilotl (Mdz8r)