Tlacotepec (Mdz10r)

Tlacotepec (Mdz10r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Tlacotepec features a cluster of flowers (tlacotl) atop a hill or mountain (tepetl). There are three stems--painted a terracotta color--with green leaves, and flowers of turquoise blue, white, red, and yellow. The mountain is a typical bell shape painted a two-tone green, with curly stone outcroppings on the slopes and horizontal red and yellow lines at its base. The locative suffix (-c) (as given in the gloss) is not shown visually, but it combines with -tepe- to form -tepec, a semantic locative suffix meaning "on the hill" or "on the mountain."

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

These plants that apparently provided the sticks or twigs (tlacotl) for making arrow shafts.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

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 (not visual, but represented semantically)

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

bell-shaped (upright)

frontal view

tripartite

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

mountains, hills, flores, cerros, montañas, madera, flechas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlaco(tl), a type of flower or osier twig, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacotl
-tepec, on the hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepec

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 10 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 30 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).