atezcatl (Mdz12r)

atezcatl (Mdz12r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element of a pool of water (atezcatl) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Atezcahuacan. It includes both spirals and step-fret swirls (in a rectangular spiral).

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)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Water
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
spiral as rectangular
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
atezca(tl), a pool or puddle of water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atezcatl
xicalcoliuhqui, step-fret coil, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xicalcoliuhqui

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 12 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 34 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: 

Atezcahuacan (Mdz12r)