calli (Mdz20v)
This element for a house or building (calli) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Tezcacoac. The building is the standard rectangular sign with T-shaped wooden beams in an orange color and the rest being white. The building is shown in profile, facing toward the viewer's right.
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Joaquín Galarza argued that this standard sign for calli was half of a building. But, if we flipped the building over and joined the two pieces together, the beam across the top would not be continuous because of the roof that hangs over the end of the beam.
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c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
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houses, buildings, architecture, casas, edificios, arquitectura
calli, hut or building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
house
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Codex Mendoza, folio 20 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 51 of 188.
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).