Tepetitlan (Mdz31r)

Tepetitlan (Mdz31r)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a green, red, white, and yellow painting of the compound glyph for the place name Tepetitlan.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text 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: 
phonetic dimensions
place name
Syntax: 
locative (visual but silent)
noun(s)
syllable: tla/tlan/tlal (from tlantli)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Landscape Features
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
green (dark)
green (light)
red
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bell-shaped (upright)
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
back to front
Keywords: 

mountains, hills, nombres de lugares, fonetismo, place names

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-tlan (locative suffix), place, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 31 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 72 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).