atl (Mdz6r)

atl (Mdz6r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Teoatzinco. It has a semi-circular shape, a container for holding water (atl), and with the green and yellow liner for the waterway, it resembles an apantli.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The segmentation in the green and yellow liner suggest an intentional construction of this water container. See how it compares to examples of the apantli that appear below.

Added 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: 
calendrics
day name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
blue (turquoise)
green (light)
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle (half)
symmetry
Keywords: 

water, agua, canales

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

a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

water

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 6 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 22, 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: 

Teoatzinco (Mdz16r)

apantli (Mdz37r)

apantli (Mdz43r)

apantli (Mdz39r)

apantli (Mdz39r)

Tlamauhco (MH660r)