tepanyaqui (TR17r)

This iconographic example from the Codex Telleriano-Remensis shows a horizontal, deceased man who has been stoned to death. He is shown in a semi-frontal (a twisted body), semi-profile view (his face). He is surrounded by seven stones, six of them with blood on them. The stones are the usual purple and orange, rounded shapes with curling ends. The purple and orange alternate in wave lines. The blood spurts something like water, but without the droplets or shells at the end of each spurt. The one stone that is in the location of his heart is pressing into his flesh but shows no blood. The man's hairstyle shows nothing unusual. The man's visible eye is closed, his red tongue protrudes, and his white upper teeth are visible. A gloss by his body clarifies that he was killed with stones (the Spanish word, "piedra").