ameyalli (YacRG)

ameyalli (YacRG)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This blue, red, black, and white painting of the element ameyalli (natural spring) has been taken from the place name glyph, tianquiztli (market place) (see below).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Yacapitztla, RG Map of (YacRG)
Date of Manuscript: 

1581

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Yecapixtla, Morelos

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Landscape Features
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
blue (sky blue)
red
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
bird's eye view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

ameyal(li), a natural spring, water source, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ameyalli

Image Source: 

Relación de Acapistla – University of Texas Libraries Collections, 1580-11-15. https://collections.lib.utexas.edu/catalog/utblac:740d6d5b-280a-45f4-a3b...

Image Source, Rights: 

Materials that are in the public domain (such as most of the maps in the PCL Map Collection) are not copyrighted, and no permission is needed to copy them. You may download them and use them as you wish. The image appears here courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin. If you do publish anything from this database, please cite the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.

See Also: 

tianquiztli (YacRG)