tetl (Mdz4v)

tetl (Mdz4v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This gray-purple and terracotta-colored painting is an iconographic example for the noun tetl (stone). It is round at one end (gray-purple) and curly at the other end, the terracotta end. It has diagonal stripes of alternating colors in the middle. The stone is being held by two hands.

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

Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Colors: 
orange/terracotta
purple
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
diagonal or angled
frontal view
segmented
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
striped
Keywords: 

piedras

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

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

la piedra

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 04 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 19 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)