tenamitl (Mdz13r)

tenamitl (Mdz13r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element for wall, ramparts, or crenellation (tenamitl) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Cozcacuauhtenanco. It includes three stepped roof decorations and, below that, a row of four concentric circles. The whole is painted turquoise blue.

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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

parapets, ramparts, walls, crenelation, 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

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 13 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 36 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: 

Cozcacuauhtenanco (Mdz13r)