Teticpac (Mdz44r)

Teticpac (Mdz44r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a orange, purple, and white painting of the compound glyph for the place name Teticpac.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This compound glyph for the place name Teticpac has two prominent visual components, a large rock (tetl) and a building above (-icpac) it. The building is a calli, but the word calli does not play a phonetic role in the place name. Rather, the calli is placed above the rock to speak to the location of the community above or on the rocky landscape.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

teticpac. puo

Gloss Normalization: 

Teticpac, 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: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Landscape Features
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
orange/terracotta
purple
Shapes and Perspectives: 
oval (see also leaf shaped)
rectangular
wavy
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

stones, rocks, above, on top of

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

te(tl), stone or rock, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
-ti- (ligature), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ti
-icpac (locative suffix, above), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icpac

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 44 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 98 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).

See Also: 

tetl (Mdz48r)

calli (Mdz33r)