Tetenanco (Mdz42r)

Tetenanco (Mdz42r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Tetenanco ("At the Ramparts") consists of two large stones and three pieces of ramparts. The stones are horizontal with curving lines cutting through them, curling outcroppings at the bottom, and they are colored purple and orange. The ramparts are vertical, colored red and turquoise, and they are crenelated or stepped.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The way the ramparts are in separate pieces, compared to the usual, joined pieces (see below, right), may represent an effort to point to the reduplication. This is possibly also true of the two stones, instead of just one.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tetenanco. pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Tetenanco, pueblo

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

locative (not visual)

noun(s)

reduplication (in gloss/text)

reduplication (visual)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

orange/terracotta

purple

Shapes and Perspectives:

crenelated

horizontal

oval (see also leaf shaped)

stepped

wavy

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

stones, ramparts, walls, crenelation

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

te(tl), stone or rock, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
tenan(tli), wall or ramparts, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tenantli
-co (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Muro de Piedra

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Erik Velásquez García, "Silabogramas nahuas en tiempos de la Conquista," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 58(2019), 83.

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 42 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 94 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).