Tlatlauhquitepec (Mdz8r)

Tlatlauhquitepec (Mdz8r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

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:

This compound glyph for the place name Tlatlauhquitepec is a hill or mountain (tepetl) painted red (tlatlauhqui). The mountain is much wider than in the case of the other glyph for the same town name that is given in the Codex Mendoza. Perhaps the intention of the width of the mountain is adjectival, as Gordon Whittaker points out (Deciphering Aztec Hieroglyphs, 2021, 94). The other one has a red circle on top, emphasizing the color as a semantic indicator.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tlatlauhquitepec

Gloss Normalization:

Tlatlauhquitepec

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:

adjective

locative (visual not silent)

noun(s)

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)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

mountains, hills, colors, cerros, montañas, colores, rojo

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

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

Whittaker's Transliteration:

TLAUH.•TEPE.

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 8 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 26, 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).