poctli (Mdz17v)

poctli (Mdz17v)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element for smoke (poctli) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Poctepec. It consists four curling puffs of smoke, rising. Three curl to the left and one to the viewer's right. The interior is orange and the exterior of each puff is purple.

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: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke
Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)
Colors: 
orange/terracotta
purple
Shapes and Perspectives: 
volute(s)
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

smoke

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 17 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 45 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: 

Poctepec (Mdz17v)

Pocatl (MH526r)

Poctli (MH833v)