tetenamitl (Osu39r)

tetenamitl (Osu39r)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This painted example of Nahua iconography shows a large curving stone wall (tetenamitl according to the nearby text) surrounded by water. Many of the stones in the wall are like glyphs, with wavy diagonal lines across the stones.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This is very similar to the stone wall shown on folio 7 recto of the same manuscript. But the stones on f. 7r do not have the glyph-like wavy diagonal lines. Some other types of stone wall appear below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

tetenamitl.

Gloss/Text Normalization:

tetenamitl

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Osuna, Codex (Osu)

Date of Manuscript:

1551–1565

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

personal name

place name

Grammar & Linguistics:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Landscape Features

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Names (places)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

tan

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

frontal view

shading and parallel line hatching

three-dimensionality

Keywords:

piedras, muros, lugares, nombres de lugares, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tetenami(tl), a stone wall, like a city wall, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetenamitl
te(tl), stones, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

el muro de piedra

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Library of Congress Online Catalog and the World Digital Library, Osuna Codex, or Painting of the Governor, Mayors, and Rulers of Mexico, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_07324/. The original is located in the Biblioteca Nacional de España.

Image Source, Rights:

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Orthography:

intrusive period

Historical Contextualizing Image: