tetl (Mdz53r)

tetl (Mdz53r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Tetzapotitlan. It is a stone (tetl) in a horizontal position, with curling ends and wavy, alternating, diagonal stripes in two colors, a terracotta-orange and a purple. The end of the stone on the viewer's right is orange, and the end on the viewer's left is purple.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Xitlali Torres

Colors: 
orange/terracotta
purple
Shapes and Perspectives: 
wavy
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

stone or rock

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 53 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 118 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: 

Tetzapotitlan (Mdz53r)