cozauhqui (Mdz16r)

cozauhqui (Mdz16r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This element for cozauhqui (something yellow) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Tecozauhtlan, the place of stones that have turned yellow. The cozauhqui is a circle filled with black dots (sand?) and small circles (stones?).

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

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Color names

Dirt, Sand, Soil

Colors:

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

frontal view

spotted or mottled

Keywords:

stones, piedras, amarillo

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cozauhqui, something yellow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozauhqui

Additional Scholars' Interpretations:

something yellow

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 16 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 42 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).