Chicuace Tecpatl (TR36r)
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.
Stephanie Wood
ca. 1550–1563
Jeff Haskett-Wood
pedernales, navajas, knives, numbers, números, fechas, dates, calendarios, años, teeth, dientes
chicuace, six, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chicuace
tecpa(tl), flint knife, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpatl
Seis Pedernal o 6-Pedernal
Stephanie Wood
Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 36 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f97.item.zoom
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