tetelli (Mdz48r)

tetelli (Mdz48r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element for a tetelli (pyramid or stepped temple] has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Cuauhtetelco. It is a black and white line drawing with four successively smaller rectangles as it goes up from bottom to top. The thinnest layer is the foundation rectangle.

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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Religion (Indigenous)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Xitlali Torres and Stephanie Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
pyramidal
rectangular
stepped
Keywords: 

pyramids, pirámides, temples, templos, pirámide

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

tetel(li),, pyramid, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetelli

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

mound or pyramid

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 48 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 106 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: 

Cuauhtetelco (Mdz48r)

tzacualli (Mdz6r)

teopantli (Mdz42r)

Tzacualcatl (MH603r)