tepehualiztli (Azca22)
This black-line drawing of the iconographic example of a pueblo defeated (tepehualiztli) shows a profile view of a house or building (likely a calli) facing right, cut in half, and tipping over. This is a simplified version of the sign of victory over a town that is depicted many times in the Codex Mendoza. We have named this sign according to a common term for war-making or defeat of an enemy, what Alonso de Molina refers to as a “conquista.”
Stephanie Wood
The building is a symbol of a pueblo, a town. Showing it tipping over and set on fire conveys that the town has been defeated, probably taken as a subject with allegiance expected to the emperor. We have selected the term for labeling this action based on the term used by Alonso de Molina (in our Online Nahuatl Dictionary), because this image is not glossed.
Stephanie Wood
post-1550, possibly from the early seventeenth century.
Jeff Haskett-Wood
conflicto, guerra, derrota, pueblo vencido
tepehualiz(tli), the defeat of enemies, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepehualiztli
la derrota de un pueblo
Stephanie Wood
The Codex Azcatitlan is also known as the Histoire mexicaine, [Manuscrit] Mexicain 59–64. It is housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and hosted on line by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=22&st=image
The Library of Congress is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.” But please cite Bibliothèque Nationale de France and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.
