tomin (Chav1)

tomin (Chav1)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a red drawing of the simplex glyph for the noun tomin (coin, or money). It is a circle with what seems to be a numeral four in the center, indicating that this sign represents four tomines.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Nahua tlacuilos sometimes wrote tomin and, sometimes when speaking of a plural number of reales, they wrote tomines (the Spanish plural), as can be found in our Online Nahuatl Dictionary entry for tomin.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Chavero, Codex (Chav)
Date of Manuscript: 

1578

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
numbers
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Markets, Commerce, Economy
Money, Coins, Prices
Numbers, Math
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
red
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tomin, a coin, one eight of a peso, a real, also money, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tomin

Image Source: 

The Codex Chavero of Huexotzinco (or Códice Chavero de Huexotzinco), https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_03246_001/?sp=1

Image Source, Rights: 

The Codex Chavero of Huexotzinco (or Códice Chavero de Huexotzinco) is held by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México. It is published online by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”