apozonalli (Mdz47r)

apozonalli (Mdz47r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This blue, orange, red, and yellow painting is a compound Nahuatl hieroglyph for the noun apozonalli (amber or the foam of water). A small turquoise-blue stream of water courses across the top and over the right end of a piece of amber that is orange and yellow. While apozonalli can be about the foam that forms on water, here it is about amber. Also, the water plays a phonetic role, tipping off the viewer that the word starts with "a."

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Alternatively, this hieroglyph could be speaking about the foam on water but using the ambar as a phonetic indicator.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

una pieza grande de ambar claro del tamaño de un ladrillo

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:

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

syllable: a/atl (from atl)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

bird's eye view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

ámbar, agua, fonetismo

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

apozonal(li), amber or the foam from water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/apozonalli
pozo, a well, or a pit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pozo
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 47 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 104 of 188.

Image Source, Rights:

Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0)