Yauhtepec (Mdz8r)
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 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."
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That this could be a paper wrapping comes from the apparent paper wrapping on dough-shaped deities found in the Primeros Memoriales, as discussed by Ian Mursell in Mexicolore. Compare this wrapping of the flowers with the very different feathers at the base of the flowers in the compound glyph for Yauhtepec on folio 24 verso (below, right).
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yauhtepec. puo
Yauhtepec, pueblo
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c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest
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hills, mountains, flowers, montañas, cerros, flores
yauh(tli), a plant smelling of anis, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yauhtli
tepe(tl), hill, mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-tepec (locative suffix), on the hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepec
Codex Mendoza, folio 8 recto, https://codicemendoza.inah.gob.mx/inicio.php?lang=english
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).
