atl (Mdz10r)

atl (Mdz10r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This element for the water [here, atl) has been carved from the compound place name Capoloac. For all intents and purposes it looks like the typical cross-section of a canal or waterway (apantli), which typically has a trapezoidal shape and a lining of a contrasting color, such as yellow, red, or green with yellow hash marks (or some combination of these. The water in the container is the usual turquoise blue with wavy lines running horizontally through the water (including one especially thick black line in the middle) and white droplets/beads and white turbinate shells splashing off the top.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The noun atl can be represented by an apantli sign and vice versa. These two signs are not hard and fast, even if they to have certain tendencies.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

calendrics

day name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Shells

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

cross-sectioned object

wavy

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 10 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 30 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).

atl (Mdz10r)Element from a Compound

Capoloac (Mdz10r)

atl (Mdz10r)
Element from a Compound