tzintli (Azca9)

tzintli (Azca9)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This red, tan, and white painting of the element tzintli (bottom or rear end) has been carved from the ethnicity name glyph Huexotzinca (see below).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Azcatitlan, Codex (Azca)
Date of Manuscript: 

post-1550, but content about the migration from Aztlan to about 1527

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

perhaps Tlatelolco, Mexico City

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
red
tan
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tzin(tli), buttocks, bottom, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzintli

Image Source: 

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.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=9&st=image

Image Source, Rights: 

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.

See Also: 

Huexotzinca (Azca9)

tzintli (Mdz40r)

tzintli (Mdz42r)

tzintli (Mdz42r)

tzintli (Mdz40r)

tzintli (Mdz40r)

tzintli (Mdz33r)

tzintli (Mdz30r)

tzintli (Mdz25r)

tzintli (Mdz13v)

tzintli (Mdz3v)