yahualli (Mdz22r)

yahualli (Mdz22r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element for a circle (yahualli) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Calyahualco. It is a simple black-line drawing of a circle.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See additional circles and round or rounded things below, right.

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: 
Ceramics, Pottery
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood, Xitlali Torres

Keywords: 

circles, círculos, algo redondo

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

yahual(li), something round, circle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yahualli

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

something round

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 22 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 54 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: 

Calyahualco (Mdz22r)

yahualli (Mdz21v)

yahualli (Mdz36r)

yahualli (Mdz27r)