chicuacentzontli (Osu37r)

chicuacentzontli (Osu37r)
Simplex Hieroglyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This painted Nahuatl hieroglyph represents the notation for four hundred (centzontli), written six (chicuace) times. In this case, what is being counted are cacao beans, or perhaps loads of cacao beans. This tribute item is shown as six single beans, each one with what appears to be a tree (the centzontli notation) on top. Six times 400 is 2,400. The contextualizing image shows an additional seven cacao beans.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The centzontli and the tzontli signs have some interchangeability. The most typical sign is like this one, like a tree. But one will also find clumps of hair, bundles of sticks, or feathers, as shown in a few examples below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

chiquacētzontli.

Gloss/Text Normalization:

chicuacentzontli

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Osuna, Codex (Osu)

Date of Manuscript:

1551–1565

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

numbers

Syntax:

noun(s)

reduplication (visual)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Feathers

Food, Eating, Cooking

Numbers, Math

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black

brown

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

Keywords:

números, notación, notaciónes, número, números, árbol, árboles, pelo, pelos, pluma, plumas, palo, palos, cacahuatl

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

chicuacen, six, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chicuacen
tzon(tli), 400, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli
chicuacentzon(tli), 2,400, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chicuacentzontli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

dos mil cuatrocientos

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Library of Congress Online Catalog and the World Digital Library, Osuna Codex, or Painting of the Governor, Mayors, and Rulers of Mexico, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_07324/. The original is located in the Biblioteca Nacional de España.

Image Source, Rights:

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Orthography:

"q" for c

intrusive period

Historical Contextualizing Image: