caxtolli omei (MH796r)

caxtolli omei (MH796r)
Simplex Glyph
Notation
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This painting of the simplex glyph for fifteen (which is a crescent shape that is meant to recall the bowl called a caxitl), plus three ones (on + eyi = omei), depicts the number 18. As the contextualizing image shows, this number is a count of widows in one part of the larger municipality of Huejotzingo.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This method of showing fifteen (the crescent-shaped bowl) is tied to Huejotzingo. See another example below. Sometimes fifteen is counted entirely with ones, as the example from the Osuna Codex shows. The glyph for “Bowl-Lipped” shows a bowl, but this is not the number 15.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

numbers

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Celestial Phenomena

Numbers, Math

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

red

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

crescent

frontal view

Keywords:

números, quince, unos, tres, dieciocho, notaciones

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

caxtolli omei, eighteen, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/caxtolli-omei
castol(li), fifteen, caxtol(li), fifteen, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/caxtolli
eyi, three, cax(itl), bowl, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/eyi
cax(itl), a bowl, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/caxitl-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

dieciocho

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 796r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=666&st=image.

Image Source, Rights:

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).

Orthography:

"g" for c, q, or x

intrusive overbar

Historical Contextualizing Image: