Yauhtepec (Mdz24v)

Yauhtepec (Mdz24v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph stands for the place name Yauhtepec (modern state of Morelos). It has two elements. At the top is the plant yauhtli, a bundle of flowers with yellow balls at the top, all possibly wrapped in paper and tied, possibly with a sacred cord (see Berdan and Anawalt, Codex Mendoza, 1992, v. 1, 228). The other component is tepetl)f (hill, mountain), which stands in for place or town. The locative suffix (-c) (as given in the gloss) is not shown visually, but it combines with -tepe- to form -tepec, a visual locative suffix meaning "on the hill" or "on the mountain."

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The yauhtli plant has a fragrance similar to anis. It has long been burned in place of incense and in association with the honoring of water deities, as is explained further in our Online Nahuatl Dictionary (see "yauhtli."

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

yauhtepec.pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Yauhtepec, 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:

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Religion (Indigenous)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

tied, bound, or bundled

bell-shaped (upright)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

hills, mountains, plants, plantas, incienso, deidades de agua

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 24 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 59 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).