Tenexcalco (MH777v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the place name Tenexcalco ("At the Lime Kiln") shows a frontal view of a circular, bucket-shaped lime kiln. It is made of stone or adobe bricks that are stacked in a standard "running bond" pattern (in European masonry terms). A small, open, black, arching doorway appears at ground level. The top is wider than the base. The top has an oval opening, either shaded or with a mesh covering it.
Stephanie Wood
See other examples for lime kilns and for lime itself, below.
Stephanie Wood
tenexgalco
Tenexcalco
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
arquitectura, tecnología, cal, nombres de lugares, topónimos, barrios
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tenexcal(li), lime kiln, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tenexcalli
-co (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 777v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=629&st=image
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