Xochitepec (TR26v)

Xochitepec (TR26v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Xochitepec has two main elements. One is a flower with four, white, rounded petals (like a quatrefoil) and, in between the petals, a right-angled point. At the center of the flower is a small circle colored red, resulting in the flower being a kind of quincunx. Behind the flower 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 Flowers."

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Date of Manuscript: 

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
Syntax: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 
Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

En el Cerro de las Flores

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 26 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f78.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

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