chicometica (T1871:1)

chicometica (T1871:1)
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a notation for the number seven, chicome, consisting of seven circular, anthropomorphic suns (with faces and spiky auras) in a horizontal row. The reference is to seven days (tonalli). The -tica suffix, which says how often, every seven years, make the number into an adverb.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The suffix, -tica, is not unusual with numbers that refer to units of time, such as days and months. And this row of suns refers to seven days. See metztica, as another example, where a number of months (metztli) is the reference.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

chicometica

Gloss Normalization:

chicometica

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

AGN Tierras 1871, exp. 1

Date of Manuscript:

1558

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Cuauhtla, Morelos

Semantic Categories:

numbers

Syntax:

adverb

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Celestial Phenomena

Numbers, Math

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

horizontal

spiky

Keywords:

xiuhpohualli, año, turquesa, xihuitl

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Image Source:

Single-page codex, Archivo General de la Nación, México, Ramo de Tierras, vol. 1871, exp. 1, fol. 28r.

Image Source, Rights:

The Archivo General de la Nación (AGN), México, holds the original manuscript. This image is published here under a Creative Commons license, asking that you cite the AGN and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.