Zacuantepec (Mdz16r)

Zacuantepec (Mdz16r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Zacuantepec contains two main elements. Two yellow, upright, feathers from a troupial bird (zacuan) appear above a two-tone green, bell-shaped hill or mountain (tepetl), and two more of the same feathers appear near the base of the hill. The hill has the classic, horizontal, red and yellow stripes near the base.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The hill or mountain (tepetl) completes the phonetic components of the place name, while doubling as an indication of the location. 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."

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

çaquantepec

Gloss Normalization: 

Zacuantepec

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: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Feathers
Landscape Features
Names (places)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
green (dark)
green (light)
red
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bell-shaped (upright)
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
front to back
multidirectional
Keywords: 

hills, mountains

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

zacuan, troupial bird, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zacuan
-tepec, on the hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepec 

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 16 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 42 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).