apozonalli (Mdz47r)

apozonalli (Mdz47r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This blue, orange, red, and yellow painting is an iconographic example for the noun apozonalli (amber or the foam of water). A small turquoise-blue stream of water courses across the top and over the right end of a piece of amber that is orange and yellow. While apozonalli can be about the foam that forms on water, here it is about amber. Also, the water plays a phonetic role, tipping off the viewer that the word starts with "a."

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
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

Semantic Categories: 
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Water
Colors: 
blue (turquoise)
orange/terracotta
red
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bird's eye view
Keywords: 

ámbar, agua

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

apozonal(li), amber or the foam from water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/apozonalli
pozo, a well, or a pit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pozo
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 47 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 104 of 188.

Image Source, Rights: 

Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0)