Calli (ATno6-1)
Calli (ATno6-1)
This black-line drawing of the simplex Nahuatl hieroglyph of a year sign for Calli (House) shows a frontal view of a building with two walls and a roof. The building has a mesh pattern with stippling on the right and left outside edges. Stippling also appears on the inside edge of the roof. The top of the roof has a scalloped edge, with each curved bit having one dot inside it. The contextualizing image shows that this is the year 11 Calli or 1529 in the European calendar. This alphabetic Nahuatl manuscript begins with events of 1519, so this is ten years into the accounting of what happened each year--what would be called the xiuhpohualli in Nahuatl, or annals in English. The Nahua tlacuilo is well adapted to the Roman alphabet, but he still includes hieroglyphs for the year signs. This practice continued for many years.
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This way of drawing a House sign is nothing like the examples we have from the sixteenth century (see below). It also varies from the two other designs on this same manuscript page. It is difficult to say what accounts for the internal variations.
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ii. Callixihuitl
11 Calli xihuitl
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c. 1720, at the latest
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arquitectura, edificio, edificios, casas, calendario, calendarios, año, años, year, years, date, dated, fecha, fechas, xiuhpohualli
cal(li), house or building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
la Casa
la Casa
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Anales de Tlaxcala, 1519–1720. Photocopy of first page that was provided to Frances Krug by the Archivo Histórico del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Currently in the Krug collection. Harvested by SW.
Creative Commons. Permission to publish here was given by BNAH Director Baltazar Brito.
