zotl (Mdz35r)

zotl (Mdz35r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for a piece of cloth (zotl) is folded, white, and has a white bone penetrating it.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The gloss explains that this is a cloth made of a soft henequen fiber. The piercing bone is a reinforcing phonetic element, as it may stand for the verb zozo, meaning piercing with a needle.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

mantas grandes de enequen blando

Gloss Normalization: 

mantas grandes de henequen blando

Gloss 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

Semantic Categories: 
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
rectangular
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

zo(tl), a piece of cloth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zotl
zozo, piercing with a needle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zozo

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 35 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 80 of 188.

Image Source, Rights: 

Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)