teopantli (Mdz19r)
Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:
This black-line drawing with added paint is an iconographic example for the noun teopantli (temple and, eventually, church).
Description, Credit:
Stephanie Wood
Added Analysis:
Like the tecpan (governing palace), which typically lacks an absolutive, the teopantli was often just called teopan.
Added Analysis, Credit:
Stephanie Wood
Source Manuscript:
Date of Manuscript:
c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
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Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):
teopan(tli), temple or church, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teopantli
Image Source:
Codex Mendoza, folio 19r recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 48 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-SA 3.0)