tequixquitl (Mdz4v)

tequixquitl (Mdz4v)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This element for tequixquitl has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Tequizquiac (perhaps "At the Salty Water"). The element consists of three circular but scalloped shapes, orange in color.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Tequixquitl apparently translates as saltpeter; Molina gives salitre. The other example for tequixquitl, from the Codex Mendoza folio 29 verso, has these shapes dotted, suggesting a granularity. (See below.) But see also the glyph for the personal name Cepayauh, which shows a cloud that indicates snow.

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)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Weather, Climate

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Keywords:

hail, pieces of ice, hard as stone, hard as rock

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tequiz(qui), hard like stone, possibly hail, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tequizqui

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 4 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 19 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).