pipiyolin (Mdz16r)

pipiyolin (Mdz16r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This element for the mountain honey bee (pipiyolin) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Pipiyoltepec. It shows the insect in a 3/4 view, facing toward the viewer's left. Its wings are spread and orange, and its body and head are yellow. It has two curving antennae and three stripes running across its back. It has a long snout.

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

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

orange/terracotta

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing left

3/4 view

pointed (see also spiky)

Keywords:

bees, wasps, hornets, vispas, abejas, avispón

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

pipiyol(in), honey bee, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pipiyolin

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Abeja Melífera de Montaña

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

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).