popoca (TR30v)

popoca (TR30v)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the glyphic element popoca (the verb, to emit smoke) has been carved from the compound personal name glyph Chimalpopoca (see below).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Telleriano-Remensis, Codex (TR)
Date of Manuscript: 

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
orange/terracotta
red
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
horizontal
profile view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Keywords: 

smoke, humo

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

popoca, to smoke (verb), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/popoca

Image Source: 

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 30 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f86.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

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See Also: 

Chimalpopoca (TR30v)

popoca (Mdz4v)

popoca (Mdz13r)

popoca (MH483v)