Tepoztlan (Mdz8r)

Tepoztlan (Mdz8r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a multicolored painting of the compound glyph for the place name Tepoztlan.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This compound glyph for the place name Tepoztlan features a tepetl) (visual but silent, serving as a locative and what Gordon Whittaker would call a "semantic complement") that has a copper axe (tepoztli)] on top. The word tepoztli can just refer to the metal that is used for the blade, what was originally copper but came to refer to various metals in the Spanish colonial period.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

tepuztlan. puo

Gloss Normalization: 

Tepoztlan, pueblo (in the state of Morelos)

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)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Landscape Features
Metals, Minerals, Mining
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
green (dark)
green (light)
pink
red
tan
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bell-shaped (upright)
frontal view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
3
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
front to back
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tepoz(tli), copper or metal, and a metal tool, by extension, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepoztli
-tlan (locative suffix), place, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan

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).