tlaximaltepoztli (Mdz37r)

tlaximaltepoztli (Mdz37r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This example of iconography from the Codex Mendoza shows a frontal view of a flared copper blade for a hatchet (tlaximaltepoztli) that would be used for cutting wood. The wide part of the blade is upward. The terracotta color points to copper.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

A photo of copper hatchet blades appears on the website of Mexicolore. Related glyphs, below, show how such hatchets were used.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

hachuelas di cobre

Gloss Normalization:

hachuelas de cobre

Gloss 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)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing upward

frontal view

pointed (see also spiky)

triangular

Keywords:

hachetas, hachuelas, hatchets, blades, axes

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlaximaltepoz(tli), a hatchet for working wood, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaximaltepoztli
tlaximal(li), wood chips or shavings, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaximalli
tepoz(tli), metal, copper, axe, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepoztli

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 37 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 84 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)