xomolli (Mdz43r)

xomolli (Mdz43r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element for xomolli (corner) has been carved from the compound glyph for the place name, Cuauhxomolco. It is an orange-tan colored, uppercase L-shape.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This element for a corner (xomolli), has what Europeans would call a right angle, but such angles were well known in the birds-eye drawings of foundations of houses and other buildings that are found on many sixteenth-century Nahua-authored pictorial manuscripts. See, for example, the house foundation on folio 61 recto in the Codex Mendoza.

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: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
horizontal
linear or multiple straight lines
right angle(s)
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

boundaries, lindero, linderos, angles, right angles,

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

xomol(li), corner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xomolli

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

boundary

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

el lindero

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 43 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 96 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: 

Cuauhxomolco (Mdz43r)

xomolli (Mdz41r)