Yahualoltepec (TR27r)

Yahualoltepec (TR27r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Yahualoltepec shows two main elements. One is a bird's eye view of something that "goes around" (yahualolli). It has a white rim and a pink or red center. The other element is a frontal view of a mottled, green, bell-shaped hill or mountain (tepetl) or, if it serves as a semantic indicator for a locative, -tepec, "on the hill"]. The hill has curling, rocky outcroppings on its slopes and a horizontal white bar or band across the base. The effect of the place name could be something like "What Surrounds the Hill."

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Yahualolli is a noun derived from the verb yahualoa, to go around, go on procession, or to surround something. Perhaps in this landscape it refers to something that surrounds the hill, but it appears to be a round, flat object. There is a round object that has a practical use with things that have uneven bottoms, helping to stabilize them, such as a ceramic jug or a log drum (see below).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

yaualul
tepetl

Gloss Normalization:

Yahualoltepetl (or better, Yahualoltepec)

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

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

bird's eye view

circle, circular or rounded

oval (see also leaf shaped)

Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

front to back

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

yahualol(li), something round, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yahualolli
tepe(tl), hill-mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

En el Cerro Redondo

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 27 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f79.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights:

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