coztic (Mdz49r)

coztic (Mdz49r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element for the adjective that means yellow (coztic) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Acozpan. The yellow is mixed here with swirling black lines because it would be difficult to separate out the yellow color more fully.

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: 
adjective
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Color names
Colors: 
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

coztic, something yellow or gold, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coztic
-tic, a suffix for adjective-like substantives, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tic-0

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

yellow

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 49 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 108 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: 

Acozpan (Mdz49r)