Matlactli Calli (TR29r) | Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs

Matlactli Calli (TR29r)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a multicolored painting of the simplex glyph and notation for the date, Matlactli Calli.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Telleriano-Remensis, Codex (TR)

Date of Manuscript:

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

Syntax:

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

blue (turquoise)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

Keywords:

casas, arquitectura, calendarios, fechas, años, números, matemáticas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

matlac(tli), ten, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/matlactli
cal(li), house, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Diez Casa, or 10-Casa

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 29 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f83.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights:

The non-commercial reuse of images from the Bibliothèque nationale de France is free as long as the user is in compliance with the legislation in force and provides the citation: “Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France” or “Source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF.”

See Also:

Matlactli Calli (Mdz2r)