tzontli (Chav)

tzontli (Chav)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This detail of the simplex glyph for the noun tzontli shows a bundle of what may be sticks, painted red. They are bound around the middle with a white belt with a step design..

Description, 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: 
Hair (human or animal)
Numbers, Math
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
red
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
tied, bound, or bundled
vertical, upright
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tzon(tli), hair, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli
-tzon(tli), when preceded by a number, multiples of four hundred, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli-0

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.”

See Also: 

tzontli (Chav1)