calli (TR15r)

calli (TR15r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for a house or building (calli) is largely painted yellow, but the T-shaped (wooden) beams are red, and the support at the bottom of the upright beam is left white. Four small rectangular shapes run across the top of the roof of the building, suggestive of crenelation or ramparts (tenantli). The house is shown in profile, looking toward the viewer's right.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The coloring and the crenelation make this calli stand out from others.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Telleriano-Remensis, Codex (TR)
Date of Manuscript: 

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
day name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
brown
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
crenelated
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

houses, casas, buildings, edificios

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

cal(li), house/building, also day sign, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli

Image Source: 

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 15 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f55.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

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Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

calli (Mdz10r)

calli (CQ)

calli (MH483r)

calli (T1735:2:109)

tenamitl (Mdz42r)