tetl (Mdz12r)
Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 
This element has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Tecaxic.
Source Manuscript: 
Date of Manuscript: 
c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 
Xitlali Torres
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Glyph or Iconographic Image: 

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 
stones or rocks
Image Source: 
Codex Mendoza, folio 12 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 34 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).
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