cozauhqui (Mdz16r)

cozauhqui (Mdz16r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element for cozauhqui (something yellow) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Tecozauhtlan, the place of stones that have turned yellow. The cozauhqui is a circle filled with black dots (sand?) and small circles (stones?).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Keywords: 

stones, piedras, amarillo

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 
Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

something yellow

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 16 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 42 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).