macuiltecpantli (MH612v)

macuiltecpantli (MH612v)
Compound Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the number and noun, macuiltecpantli (five twenties) has been carved from a scene showing a macultepanpixqui, a person in charge of 100 tribute payers/laborers (and their families). Each twenty is represented by an upright white flag facing toward the viewer's right. At the top of each flag is a small human head, which represents a tribute payer (and, we learn from a text on the page, his wife and presumably his family). So, this compound glyph shows one hundred tribute payers (with partners). Each flag (panitl) serves as a phonetic indicator for tecpantli (twenty). The human heads also make it clear that the compound refers to a number of people.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
numbers
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
line connecting elements
noun(s)
visual plural (multiples of objects)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Labor Issues
Numbers, Math
Tributes, Taxation, Service
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
rectangular
symmetry
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

tribute payers, tributarios, laborers, trabajadores, repartimiento, números, mathematics, matemáticas, ciento, cien, hundred

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

macuiltecpan(tli), one hundred (literally, five twenties), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macuiltecpantli
macuil(li), five, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macuilli
tecpan(tli), twenty, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpantli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Cien [Tributarios]

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 612v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=307st=image.

Image Source, Rights: 

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

macuiltecpanpixqui (MH500v)