tecozahuitl (Mdz40r)

tecozahuitl (Mdz40r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This orange and yellow painting is an iconographic example for the noun tecozahuitl (yellow ochre). The ochre is a heaping quantity in a terracotta-colored vessel. An additional yellow stone glyph (tetl) appears in the upper right corner of the vessel, a phonetic indicator that the contents are a term that starts with te-.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
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

Semantic Categories: 
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Ceramics, Pottery
Food, Eating, Cooking
Plants, Flora
Colors: 
orange/terracotta
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tecozahu(itl), yellow ochre, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecozahuitl

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 40 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 90 of 188.

Image Source, Rights: 

Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)