Matlactli Omome Calli (TR34r)

This red and blue painting is a simplex glyph plus notation for the year date, Matlactli Omome Calli ("Twelve House"), or 1465. The date is boxed in, as is customary, with a turquoise-blue frame. Not coincidentally, the word for year (xihuitl) is the same word as for turquoise. The notation is shown as a horizontal row (across the top )of five small circles painted blue, a vertical row of six of the same (on the right side of the date box), and one more single circle attached to the six by a short line. These circles add up to matlactli omome (twelve). The calli (house or building) appears in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. It has a standard design except for the four small rectangles standing, evenly spaced, on the roof.