cozatli (Mdz46r)

cozatli (Mdz46r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This glyphic element has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Cozamaloapan. It seems to be be a cozatli (also called a cozama in the Florentine Codex, Book 11, f. 14r.). Another possibility, is the cozantli (lynx). These are apparently distinct small wild animals. (See our links to the dictionary terms.) The animal here is painted a terracotta color. He has a black band over his eyes.

Description, 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

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals: Misc.
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

coza(tli), a weasel, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozatli
cozan(tli), a lynx, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozantli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, comadreja

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 46 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 102 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: 

Cozamaloapan (Mdz46r)