tlapalli (CST29)
This painting of the simplex glyph for the term tlapalli (here, paint) shows what seem to be seven or eight paint pots of different colors (green, red, and yellow). The pots of paint are wider at the top than the base, and they seem to come to three points at the top.
Stephanie Wood
The companion text refers to “various different paints” that were used for painting the audiencia (or the building used for the meetings of the local Indigenous town council). For more on the Codex Sierra, see Kevin Terraciano’s study (2021), especially p. 153.
Stephanie Wood
1550–1564
Jeff Haskett-Wood
pinturas, rojo, verde, amarillo, colores, pintar edificios
tlapal(li), paint, dye, color, red, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlapalli
pintura
Stephanie Wood
Códice Sierra-Texupan, plate 29, page dated 1560. Origin: Santa Catalina Texupan, Mixteca Alta, State of Oaxaca. Kevin Terraciano has published an outstanding study of this manuscript (Codex Sierra, 2021), and in his book he refers to alphabetic and “pictorial” writing, not hieroglyphic writing. We are still counting some of the imagery from this source as hieroglyphic writing, but we are also including examples of “iconography” where the images verge on European style illustrations or scenes showing activities. We have this iconography category so that such images can be fruitfully compared with hieroglyphs. Hieroglyphic writing was evolving as a result of the influence of European illustrations, and even alphabetic writing impacted it.
https://bidilaf.buap.mx/objeto.xql?id=48281&busqueda=Texupan&action=search
The Biblioteca Digital Lafragua of the Biblioteca Histórica José María Lafragua in Puebla, Mexico, publishes this Códice Sierra-Texupan, 1550–1564 (62pp., 30.7 x 21.8 cm.), referring to it as being in the “Public Domain.” This image is published here under a Creative Commons license, asking that you cite the Biblioteca Digital Lafragua and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.
