calli (Mdz67r)
This house or building (calli) is an example of the iconography of some houses. It is not a glyph, but it is provided here for the purpose of making comparisons with glyphs. This building is shown in a profile view, like many calli glyphs, with the opening facing toward the viewer's left. (Alternatively, sometimes these buildings face right. What is rare is the frontal view.) The T-shaped wooden beams in the entryway are standard. The lines on the terracotta-colored roof may suggest either thatching or more planks of wood.
Stephanie Wood
Joaquín Galarza argued that the 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, as the roof wraps around it.
Stephanie Wood
1541, or by 1553 at the latest
houses, buildings, architecture, casas, edificios, arquitectura
cal(li), house or building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
casa, o edificio
Stephanie Wood
Codex Mendoza, folio 67 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 144 of 188.
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-SA 3.0)
