Matlactli Tecpatl (Mdz2r)

Matlactli Tecpatl (Mdz2r)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This combined simplex glyph and notation produces the date Ten Flint Knife (Matlactli Tecpatl). It is contained in a black-line box (barely visible here). The combination is painted over with a turquoise blue. The flint knife is a leaf shape (pointed oval), and it has a diagonal line cutting across it (leaning left). The ten ones are arranged in two groups of five (5 + 5 = 10). One group of five ones runs horizontally inside the top of the box, from the left corner. The other group runs vertically inside the right side of the box.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
year name
Syntax: 
ten as two fives (notation)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Colors: 
blue (turquoise)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
boxed in
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
diagonal or angled
leaf, marquise, pointed oval
pointed (see also spiky)
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
right to left
multidirectional
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tecpa(tl), flint knife, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpatl
matlac(tl)i, ten, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/matlactli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Diez Pedernal, 10-Pedernal

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 02 recto, https://codicemendoza.inah.gob.mx/inicio.php?lang=english.

Image Source, Rights: 

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).