Zoltepec (TR40v) | Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs

Zoltepec (TR40v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a multicolored painting of the compound glyph for the place name, Zoltepec ("Quail Mountain" or "Quail Hill").

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Telleriano-Remensis, Codex (TR)

Date of Manuscript:

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

Syntax:

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Landscape Features

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

blue (turquoise)

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

bell-shaped (upright)

curving, curvy, curved

spotted or mottled

Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

outward (from inside out)

Keywords:

hills, mountains, cerros, montañas, codornices

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

zol(in), quail, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zolin
tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-tepec, on the hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepec

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

En el Cerro del Codorniz

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 40 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f106.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights:

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Historical Contextualizing Image:

See Also:

zolin (Mdz48r)

zolin (Mdz15v)

zolin (MH514r)