matlactli (T1871:1)

matlactli (T1871:1)
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This notation matlactli (ten) was combined with the glyph for matl, a measurement, in the original manuscript. The notation consists of a row of ten ones (small circles), running horizontally. The ones are slightly different colors, but this does not seem intentional.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Some notations for ones have dots or smaller concentric circles in the middle of them. This one does not. Sometime notations of ones can be vertical, L-shaped, or horizontal. See the examples, below, for the number five.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

AGN Tierras 1871, exp. 1

Date of Manuscript:

1558

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Cuauhtla, Morelos

Semantic Categories:

numbers

Syntax:

noun(s)

ten all run together (notation)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Measurements, Quantities

Numbers, Math

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

brown

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

horizontal

Keywords:

números

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

matlactli, ten, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/matlactli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

diez

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Single-page codex, Archivo General de la Nación, México, Ramo de Tierras, vol. 1871, exp. 1, fol. 28r.

Image Source, Rights:

The Archivo General de la Nación (AGN), México, holds the original manuscript. This image is published here under a Creative Commons license, asking that you cite the AGN and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.