Xochitepec (TR26v)
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."
Stephanie Wood
ca. 1550–1563
Jeff Haskett-Wood
xochi(tl), flower(s), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
tepe(tl), hill, mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-tepec, on the hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepec
En el Cerro de las Flores
Stephanie Wood
Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 26 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f78.item.zoom
The non-commercial reuse of images from the Bibliothèque nationale de France is free as long as the user is in compliance with the legislation in force and provides the citation: “Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France” or “Source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF.”