teopantli (Mdz42r)

teopantli (Mdz42r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Teopantlan. It shows a temple (teopantli) in the shape of a stepped pyramid in profile, with the steps on the viewer's right. The steps are articulated part way down from the top. The temple is entirely white.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Like the tecpan (governing palace), which typically lacks an absolutive, the teopantli was often just called teopan.

Added Analysis, 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
Landscape Features
Religion (Indigenous)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood, Xitlali Torres

Colors: 
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
pyramidal
stepped
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

teopan(tli), temple or church, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teopan

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

temple

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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: 

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: 

Teopantlan (Mdz42r)