ome (Mdz18r)

ome (Mdz18r)
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element of the number two (ome) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Omecuauh. The number two consists of two circles, white or neutral in color, with smaller concentric circles filled in with red coloring. The two larger circles are side by side, in a horizontal line, and the smaller red circles are approximately the same size and centered within the larger circles. The result is something akin to beads.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Numbers can be seen as notation rather than glyphs. This notation has been carved from the compound glyph for the day sign, Two Eagle.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Numbers, Math
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
Keywords: 

two, 2, numbers, dates

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

ome, two, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ome

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

two

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

dos

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 18 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 46 of 188.

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).

See Also: 

Omecuauh (Mdz18r)