cuahuitl (Mdz44r)

cuahuitl (Mdz44r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This element for tree (cuahuitl) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Cuauhxilotitlan. The tree has a leader and one branch. The bark has a terracotta color, and two black stripes, one thin and one thick. The roots are red, and the foliage is two tones of green.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

he black stripes (tlilcuahuitl) are phonetic indicators that this sign is a tree (cuahuitl), something I discovered independently, but which has also been pointed out by Brígida von Mentz ("De árboles, raíces, y locativos en la iconografía del México antiguo," Tlalocan 15, 2008, 216–219).

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:

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

roots are visible

striped

vertical, upright

Reading Order, Notes:

trees, árboles

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuahui(tl), tree(s), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuahuitl-1
tlilcuahui(tl), black stripe(s), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlilcuahuitl

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 44 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 98 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).

cuahuitl (Mdz44r)Element from a Compound

Cuauhxilotitlan (Mdz44r)

cuahuitl (Mdz44r)
Element from a Compound