Tlatlauhquitepec (Mdz51r)

Tlatlauhquitepec (Mdz51r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Tlatlauhquitepec consists of a circle painted red (tlatlauhqui) atop a hill or mountain (tepetl)] that is also red. The hill has the usual bell shape with curling outcroppings on the slopes and red and yellow horizontal stripes at the base. 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 glyph for tepetl) is normally primarily green in color. So, there is an underlining or emphasis on the red color in this glyph, what Gordon Whittaker might call a semantic indicator.

We have another example of a glyph for Tlatlauhquitepec from the Codex Mendoza, and it is just the hill painted red, without the added circle for clarification or emphasis on the color name, but with a greater width to the mountain, perhaps a visual adjective.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tlatlauhquitepec.
pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Tlatlauhquitepec, 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

semantic indicator

Syntax:

adjective

locative (visual not silent)

noun(s)

reduplication (in gloss/text)

reduplication (visual)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Color names

Landscape Features

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

red

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

bell-shaped (upright)

circle, circular or rounded

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

downward

Keywords:

red color name, mountains, hills, colores, rojo, cerros, montañas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlatlauhqui, red, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatlauhqui
tepe(tl), hill, mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-c (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/c
-tepec, on the hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepec

Additional Scholars' Interpretations:

"Red Mountain" (Whittaker, 2021, 94)

Whittaker's Transliteration:

^(TLA)TLAUH(TLA)TLAUH.•TEPEC.

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 51 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 112 of 118.

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).