otli (Mdz10v)

otli (Mdz10v)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Tamuoc. The sign for road here has a terracotta color and three alternating footprints (suggesting movement across space). In the original compound, this element played a phonetic role.

Description, 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)
visual movement
visual plural (multiples of objects)
Writing Features: 
undetermined # of elements
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Footprint(s), human
Transportation, Travel, Roads
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Xitlali Torres

Shapes and Perspectives: 
diagonal or angled
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

o(tli), road, channel, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/otli

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

road

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 10 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 31 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: 

Tamuoc (Mdz10v)

Otlamaxal (MH658v)

Otlica (MH809r)