Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . teenth century, we may consider the middle of thefourteenth century as the date of this conquest. ^ Burgoa, work cited, chap. 72. See Sahagun, v. 9, chap. 2. 262 BUKEAU OF AMEKICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 interpreter of the Codex Telleriano-Remensis, the Mexicans sub-jugated the city of Mictla in the province of Huaxaca in theyear 2 Tochtli, or A. D. 1494, and the city of Teotzapotlan, whichwas the capital of the province of Huaxaca in the year 3 Acatl, orA. D. 1495. This information is interesting because mention ismade^ h
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . teenth century, we may consider the middle of thefourteenth century as the date of this conquest. ^ Burgoa, work cited, chap. 72. See Sahagun, v. 9, chap. 2. 262 BUKEAU OF AMEKICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 interpreter of the Codex Telleriano-Remensis, the Mexicans sub-jugated the city of Mictla in the province of Huaxaca in theyear 2 Tochtli, or A. D. 1494, and the city of Teotzapotlan, whichwas the capital of the province of Huaxaca in the year 3 Acatl, orA. D. 1495. This information is interesting because mention ismade^ here of the conquest or destruction of the Zapotec city ofpriests and tombs, Yoopaa, or Mictlan, by the Mexicans in pre-Spanish times. The picture writing itself « does not entirely agreewith this interpretation. In it only the conquest of Uaxyacac andTeotzapotlan—which may refer, of course, to the entire province,that is, to the whole valley—is expressed by the hieroglyphs of thesetwo names and a prisoner of war adorned for the sacrificio gladia-tor io (figure 55).. Fig. 55. Symbols from the Codex Telleriano-Remensis. In the coast land the expeditions doubtless extended through sev-eral years, for the subjugation of the cities of the coast land is notreported until the year 5 Calli, or A. D. 1497, and in this reportChimalpahin, Codex Vaticanus A, and Historia Mexicana of theAubin-Goupil collection agree. Chimalpahin * mentions Xochitlan,Amaxtlan, and Tehuantepec as the cities which were conquered inthis year by the Mexicans. Codex Vaticanus A ^ and Historia Part 4, pi. 22. The name Uaxyacac is expressed here simply by the picture of thealgaroba tree ; the name Teotzapotlan, by the picture of the sapodilla tree. Afiales de Domingo Francisco de San Anton Munon Chimalpahin Remi Simeon, Paris, 1889, pp. 10 and 167. <^ Codex Vaticanus A, page 127. Amaxtlan is expressed by the combination of a breech-cloth (maxtlatl) and the sign for water (atl), which
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