cuechtli (Mdz44r)

cuechtli (Mdz44r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the element for cuechtli, a long conch shell, has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Tlalcuechahuayan. It is horizontal, with the curling end on the viewer's left and the five curing hash marks at the bottom.

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)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Shells
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
horizontal
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Keywords: 

shells, conchas

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

cuech(tli), a long conch shell, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuechtli

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

a long shell

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

la concha

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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).

See Also: 

Tlalcuechahuayan (Mdz44r)

Coacuechtli (MH569v)