metztli (FCbk11f214v)

metztli (FCbk11f214v)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of metztli (the moon) has been carved from the compound glyph for Temetztli (see below). The moon is a crescent with a profile of a face tucked in the crescent, looking toward the viewer's right. Shading gives it a three-dimensionality, which suggests European artistic influence.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)

Date of Manuscript:

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

calendrics

month name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Celestial Phenomena

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

circle (half)

curving, curvy, curved

facing right

profile view

shading and parallel line hatching

three-dimensionality

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

metz(tli), moon, crescent, a month, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/metztli

Image Source:

World Digital Library, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_10622/?sp=430

Image Source, Rights:

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