tzompantli (Mdz2r)
This iconographic example of a skull rack (tzompantli) is provided here as a comparison for glyphs that capture the tzompantli. This example could be considered a glyph, but we do not have a gloss, so we are including it here as iconography. It looks much like the glyphs, with the rectangular wooden structure on a dark base and one skull over the horizontal post, in profile, looking toward the viewer's right.
Stephanie Wood
by 1553 at the latest
Xitlali Torres
muertes, muertos, calaveras, cabezas, estructuras, palos, plataformas
Codex Mendoza, folio 02 recto, https://codicemendoza.inah.gob.mx/inicio.php?lang=english.
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).