Eyi Tochtli (Mdz2r)
This simplex glyph plus notation represents a solar year date of Eyi Tochtli (Three Rabbit, or 3-Rabbit). While the image did not capture it, this date is enclosed in a black-line box, which is indicative that it is a date. The turquoise blue paint over the entire box and its contents is a phonetic indicator that this is a year date, given that year (xihuitl) and turquoise (xihuitl) are homophones. The three ones of the notation are circles with a dot in the middle of each one. Sometimes these circles are empty, and sometimes they have concentric circles inside. So, there are some variations.
Stephanie Wood
c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest
xiuhpohualli, año, turquesa, xihuitl
eyi, three, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/eyi
tochtli, rabbit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tochtli
Codex Mendoza, folio 02 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 14 of 188.
The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).