macuilli (MH495v)

macuilli (MH495v)
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This row of black dots is an example for the notation of macuilli (five). The five dots are in a horizontal row.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
numbers
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Numbers, Math
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
dotted, granular, textured
Keywords: 

números, puntos, cinco

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

macui(li), five, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macuilli

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 495v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=70&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Macuilmazatl (MH495v)