toponym glyph, Xochitepec

This place glyph reads ”xochitepec” (Nahuatl toponym, ”Flower mountain”). A woven mat or petate is placed beneath the place name of Xochitepec, possibly to indicate the existence of a local ruling dynasty with its own throne. This is the name of town whose history and territory the mapa documents: Xochitepec, and later renamed San Juan Bautista Xochitepec/Suchitepec, which is located in the of Huajuapan district in the northern Mixteca Baja region of the state of Oaxaca. [Jesper Nielsen]