tecpantli (MH910r)

tecpantli (MH910r)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example of tecpantli (twenty) is intended to provide a comparison to flags and banners in the glyphs, particularly for banners that stand for the number 20 (tecpantli) versus flags that are meant to be flag and flags that provide the phonetic locative suffix -pan of place names.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

numbers

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flags, banners

Numbers, Math

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Keywords:

flags, banners, panitl, pamitl, 20s, twenties, banderas, veintes, twenty, 20, numbers, números

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

-tecpan(tli), a visual notation for the number 20, referring to furrows, agaves, people, etc., https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpantli
pan(itl), flag or banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

la bandera, el número 20

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 910r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=890&st=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).

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