petlatl (TK204v)

petlatl (TK204v)
Simplex Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex Nahuatl hieroglyph shows a horizontal, rectagonal woven mat (petlatl). It is a golden/light brown color. This woven mat has numerous uses in Nahua society, such as for sleeping, sitting, wrapping corpses, and bundling loads being carried on one’s back.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The weave here is less regular than in the normal petlatl glyph. See some examples below.

Side Note: The folio numbers are not always clear in the copy published online by the British Museum. Marc Thouvenot gives this page the number K02_B in his TLACHIA digital collection, https://tlachia.iib.unam.mx/tepetlaoztoc/K02_B.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

petates

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

(i.e., petlatl)

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Tepetlaoztoc, Codex (aka Kingsborough) (TK)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1556

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Tepetlaoztoc, East of Lake Tetzcoco

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Furniture
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
brown
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
rectangular
woven
Keywords: 

estera, esteras, tejida, tejidas, tejidos

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

petla(tl), a woven mat, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/petlatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

el petate

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

The Codex Kingsborough, also known as the Códice de Tepetlaoztoc, and the Memorial de los indios de Tepetlaoztoc, is not on display. It was transferred from the British Library and is now held by the British Museum. It is shared on line at: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Am2006-Drg-13964

Image Source, Rights: 

©The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. Please also cite the <em>Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphsem>, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities Projects, 2020-present) and this URL.

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Acapetlatlan (Mdz47r)

Petlatlan (Mdz38r)

petlachiuhqui (MH489r)