Tenexticpac (Mdz10v)

Tenexticpac (Mdz10v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Tenexticpac ("Above the Quick Lime") shows a standard hill or mountain (tepetl), which serves as a semantic locative. Above the hill is the head of a person shown in profile, looking toward the viewer's left. The hair of the person appears to have been replace with lime as a way of providing a phonetic indicator for the the burned mineral. But the nose ornament on the person's head provides a semantic complement for "tenex," as it seems to point to an ethnicity in the Huaxtec region.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

In the Florentine Codex book 10, it is said that Huaxteca men went about naked until after Spanish colonization. In book 8, it is stated that these people had their "noses pierced like jug handles," they colored their hair yellow, they had arrow marks on their face masks, their teeth were filed to a point, and their heads has a conical shape. [See: the Digital Florentine Codex, https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/8/folio/30r.]

See also the hieroglyphs for Tamuoc and Cuextecatl, below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tenexticpac. pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Tenexticpac, 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

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Foreigners/Others

Landscape Features

Names (places)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Other Cultural Influences:

Huaxtec

Keywords:

cal, Huasteca

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tenex(tli), quick lime, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tenextli
-ticpac, above, on top of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ticpac

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 10 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 31 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).