Chicome Acatl (TR29r)

Chicome Acatl (TR29r)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This colorful simplex glyph with added notation, Chicome Acatl (Seven Reed, or 7-Reed) shows a reed with leaves and feathers that is contained within a turquoise (xihuitl, for year) color box and 5 + 2 small circles representing ones, for a total of 7. The ones include five horizontal circles across the top and two more going down and inside the right side of the box. The reed and the ones are all painted turquoise, but the background is red.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The way the ones are presented is like a mathematical equation. The boxing is typical of a date, and the color turquoise says this is a year date in the calendar called the xiuhpohualli. Calendrics were an important element in the Nahuas' religious view of the cosmos. As the gloss indicates, this particular 7-Reed year was 1395 in the Western calendar.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

1395

Source Manuscript: 
Telleriano-Remensis, Codex (TR)
Date of Manuscript: 

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
year name
numbers
Syntax: 
ligature -om-/-on- (visual)
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Feathers
Numbers, Math
Plants, Flora
Religion (Indigenous)
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
blue (turquoise)
red
Shapes and Perspectives: 
boxed in
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

reeds, cañas, fechas, años, plantas, plumas, calendarios, xiuhpohualli, año, turquesa, xihuitl

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

chicome, seven, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chicome
aca(tl), reed, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Siete-Caña, o 7-Caña

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 29 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f83.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

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See Also: 

Chicome Acatl (Mdz2r)