calli (Mdz28r)
This element of a house or building (calli) doubles as the compound sign for the place name, Huapalcalco. The building is shown in a rare frontal view that allows the artist to emphasize the many beams this construction had (not all buildings had so many beams, apparently). These terracotta orange (wooden) beams are called (huapalli). The building is characterized by right angles, and it has special designs just below and on top of the roof.
Stephanie Wood
Stephanie Wood
c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
Stephanie Wood
houses, buildings, architecture, casas, edificios, arquitectura
calli, house or building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
building, house
Stephanie Wood
Codex Mendoza, folio 28 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 66 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).