Coyotepec (MH705v)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Coyotepec (“On Coyote Mountain” or “On Coyote Hill”) shows a hill (tepetl) with hatch marks that give it a three-dimensionality. On top of the hill is a coyote (coyotl) sitting, in a profile view, facing toward the viewer’s right. Its front legs are reaching forward at about chest height, and its long tail stretches out horizontally behind it. This Coyote Hill is inside the entrance to a building, probably a calli (house or building), facing toward the right, too. The building is red, white, and black. It has a T-shaped entrance, and the beams are red. The vertical beam is black in its lower two-fifths. The building is a visual and semantic locative, helping to underline the -c of -tepec.