tecpantli (Mdz20v)

tecpantli (Mdz20v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This notation for twenty (tecpantli) is attached to a war shield as an indicator that twenty such shields should be provided in tributes. It is a rectangular (paper or fabric?) flag on a short (wooden?) pole. It faces toward the viewer's right.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

xx.

Gloss Normalization:

xx (twenty)

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

numbers

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flags, banners

Measurements, Quantities

Numbers, Math

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Shapes and Perspectives:

rectangular

vertical, upright

Keywords:

measurements, medidas, números, veinte, twenty, 20, numbers, números, cempohualli

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tecpan(tli), twenty, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpantli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

veinte

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 20 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 51 of 188.

Image Source, Rights:

Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0)