Chicuace Tecpatl (TR36r)

Chicuace Tecpatl (TR36r)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This red and blue painting is a simplex glyph plus notation for the year date, Chicuace Tecpatl ("Six Flint Knife"), or 1472. The date is boxed in, as is customary, with a turquoise-blue frame. Not coincidentally, the word for year (xihuitl) is the same word as for turquoise. The notation is shown as a vertical row of six (chicuace) small circles painted blue. To the left of this notation is the simplex glyph for tecpatl (flint knife). The knife has a row of teeth on the right side, from the viewer's perspective. Some leaves seem to frame the knife.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Telleriano-Remensis, Codex (TR)

Date of Manuscript:

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

calendrics

year name

numbers

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Numbers, Math

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

blue (turquoise)

red

Shapes and Perspectives:

boxed in

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

leaf, marquise, pointed oval

rectangular

vertical, upright

Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

right to left

Keywords:

pedernales, navajas, knives, numbers, números, fechas, dates, calendarios, años, teeth, dientes

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

chicuace, six, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chicuace
tecpa(tl), flint knife, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Seis Pedernal o 6-Pedernal

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 36 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f97.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights:

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