Teticpac (Mdz44r)

Teticpac (Mdz44r)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a orange, purple, and white painting of the compound glyph for the place name Teticpac (perhaps, "Above the Stones"). 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.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Many place names have this -icpac suffix, which can translate as above, over, at the top of, etc.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

teticpac. puo

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Teticpac, pueblo

Gloss/Text 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, nombres de lugares

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)