30 May 2025 / 10 House
Ideas for PICTOGRAMS...
Scroll glyph, Codex Borbonicus
We cannot do justice to Aztec writing systems, here or anywhere. They’re FAR more sophisticated and generally natty than most people think. But we have to start somewhere; so our researcher Julia Flood has produced some introductory resource material... For now, here are jpegs of the pages Julia has designed, that you can print out. As soon as we can we’ll convert the material into a regular website page, with a downloadable PDF version...
Sources:-
La Matrícula de Tributos, edición especial, Arqueología Mexicana, Mexico City
Codex Borbonicus and Codex Mendoza
What you CAN download here is the latest version, in full colour, of our first Activity Sheet, which is on Aztec glyphs or pictograms...
... and (2009) an activity sheet on Moctezuma and Aztec pictograms as featured in remus the magazine for the Young Friends of the British Museum.
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Scroll glyph, Codex Borbonicus
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