tzilacayotli (Mdz40r)

tzilacayotli (Mdz40r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element for a soft squash (tzilacayotli) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Tzilacaapan. It is shown lying horizontally on its side. It is painted in two tones of green with the stripes from top to bottom. It has something like a flower at one end (on the right) and a stem at the other (on the left).

Description, 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: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
green (dark)
green (light)
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tzilacayo(tli), a soft squash, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzilacayotli

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 40 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 90 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: 

Tzilacaapan (Mdz40r)