huei (Mdz16r)

huei (Mdz16r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Hueiapan (or Hueyapan, today). It is a circle with horizontal lines of varying thicknesses. The lines are a little bit wavy, suggesting movement. The contents of the circle are painted over with a turquoise color. The circle as a whole is relatively large (huei), according to the gloss for the town name ("Hueiapan"), which refers to a location on a large body of water.

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
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Movement
Water
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
wavy
Keywords: 

large, great, grande, gran

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

a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
huei, large, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huei
-pan (locative suffix), at or on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan
apan(tli), a water channel, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/apantli

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

large or great

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).

See Also: 

Hueiapan (Mdz16r)