Matlactli Omome Miquiztli (FCbk4f7r)

Matlactli Omome Miquiztli (FCbk4f7r)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This colorful painting of a simplex glyph-plus-notation has as its focus the date Matlactli Omome Miquiztli ("Twelve Death," or 12-Death), in the religious divinatory calendar called the tonalpohualli. The glyph is a frontal view of a skull, white with some gray shading (showing European stylistic influences). To the right of the skull the notation shows twelve (matlactli omome) small circles connected by lines. These circles (two rows of five and a row of two, as though counted on fingers) are painted green.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Date of Manuscript: 

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Keywords: 

tonalpohualli, fechas, calendarios, días, muerte, calavera, calaveras, numbers, números, mahtlactli, nombres de días

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 
Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Trece Muerte, o 13-Muerte

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source, Rights: 

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