tenamitl (Mdz10v)

tenamitl (Mdz10v)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element for tenamitl (wall, ramparts, crenellation) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Tenantzinco. This one is painted turquoise blue. It has three stepped roof decorations and, below them, a horizontal band of four concentric circles.

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)
Colors: 
blue (turquoise)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
horizontal
stepped
Keywords: 

walls, muros, cercas, tenantli, merlons, almenas

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

tenam(itl), wall, fortification, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tenamitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

la pared, la muralla, la almenación

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 10 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 31 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: 

Tenantzinco (Mdz10v)

tenamitl (Mdz2r)

tenamitl (Mdz7v)

tenamitl (Mdz10r)

tenamitl (Mdz10v)

tenamitl (Mdz13r)

tenamitl (Mdz34r)

tenamitl (Mdz37r)