tenextli (Mdz42r)

tenextli (Mdz42r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing is an iconographic example for the noun tenextli (lime for plastering). The dotted, granular or powdery lime is showing above the rim of a woven yellow basket.

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

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Colors: 
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
dotted, granular, textured
frontal view
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tenex(tli), lime, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tenextli

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 42 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 94 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)

See Also: 

tenextli (Osu1v)