Macuilli Calli (CQ)

Macuilli Calli (CQ)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This combined simplex glyph-notation for a date that was given as a personal name consists of a row of five (macuilli) small circles (colored red, turquoise blue, and a yellowish-brown), arranged in a vertical row, to the left of the half of a house or building (calli). The building has a red roof and a brown wooden beam holding it up. Its foundation is a horizontal white platform.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The arrangement of five ones here is somewhat different from some other renditions of the same number, as can be seen below. If it is not random, the way they are colored may have a pattern (red, brown, blue, and starting again). The context image shows that the man with this name, Macuilli Calli (Five House, 5-House), sits on a jaguar-skin covered icpalli (an Indigenous seat of authority or throne). He also wears a cape or cloak (tilmatli) tied over one shoulder. These are indicators that he was an elite Nahua male.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Quetzalecatzin, Codex (CQ)

Date of Manuscript:

covers ruling men and women of Tecamachalco through 1593

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

southern Puebla state

Semantic Categories:

calendrics

day name

year name

numbers

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Numbers, Math

Politics, Power, Governance

Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Randall Rodríguez

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

left to right

Other Cultural Influences:

Mixtec

Keywords:

five, cinco, house, casa, building, edificio, numbers, numeros, names, nombres, dates, fechas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

macuil(li), five, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macuilli
cal(li), house or building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
icpal(li), important seat or throne, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icpalli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Cinco Casa, 5-Casa

Image Source:

The Codex Quetzalecatzin, aka Mapa de Ecatepec-Huitziltepec, Codex Ehecatepec-Huitziltepec, or Charles Ratton Codex. Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017590521/

Image Source, Rights:

The Library of Congress, current custodian of this pictorial Mexican manuscript, hosts a digital version online. It is not copyright protected.

Historical Contextualizing Image: