Matlactli Calli (TR29r)

Matlactli Calli (TR29r)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a multicolored painting of the simplex glyph and notation for the date, Matlactli Calli. It shows a turquoise-blue house (calli) in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. Above the house are two horizontal rows of five small circles that are also painted turquoise blue. The background is red. A turquoise blue box surrounds this year date. Year dates are typically boxed in this way. The color is a phonetic indicator, calling forth the word xihuitl, which is both turquoise and "year."

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The number ten (matlactli or mahtlactli) is often broken visually into two groups of five, echoing the counting of ten on two hands of five fingers.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
numbers
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
visual plural (multiples of objects)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Numbers, Math
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

casas, arquitectura, calendarios, fechas, año, números, matemáticas, xiuhpohualli, mahtlactli, nombres de años

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

matlac(tli), ten, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/matlactli
cal(li), house, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Diez Casa, or 10-Casa

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: 

Matlactli Calli (Mdz2r)