Tochtepec (Mdz46r)

Tochtepec (Mdz46r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Tochtepec shows the head of a rabbit (tochtli) atop a hill or mountain (tepetl). The rabbit's head is in profile, looking to our right. We see an eye, nose, and teeth protruding from the mouth. Under the chin, the fur is white, whereas most of the fur is a purple-gray. The tepetl is a standard bell shape, painted green, with yellow and red horizontal lines at the bottom. The locative suffix (-c) (as given in the gloss) is not shown visually, but it combines with -tepe- to form -tepec, a visual locative suffix meaning "on the hill" or "on the mountain."

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tochtepec / pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Tochtepec, 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 (visual not silent)

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Landscape Features

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Teeth Protruding/Noticeable

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

purple (light)/lavender

red

white/neutral

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

bell-shaped (upright)

facing right

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

rabbits, hills, mountains

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

toch(tli), rabbit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tochtli
tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-tepec, on the hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepec

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 46 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 102 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).