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Evidence in Aztec Core
2 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1325
Type Ethnography
Game Patolli (Aztec)
Date 1525-01-01 - 1575-12-31
Rules Up to four players. Cross-shaped board, divided into squares, 2x10 in each arm. Five beans used as dice. Four pieces on the board.
Content " Este es juego que los indios tenian y llamauanle patole. Que como juego de dadas encima de un petate pintado." Accompanied with a drawing of four men discussing around the board with the god Macuilxuchitl. Cross-shaped board divided into squares, with 2x10 in each arm. Five marked beans off to the side, likely indicate the dice. Four circles are arranged in the central four squares, probably represent playing pieces. Codex Magliabechiano F. 59-60.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Genders Male
Source Codex Magliabechiano.
Id DLP.Evidence.1331
Type Artistic depiction
Game Patolli
Ruleset Type 1
Date 1504-01-01 - 1521-12-31
Rules Square board with looped corners, crossed tracks in the center which also loop at their intersections with each other and the square track.
Content Drawing of a game board in the Codex Borbonicus. Square board with looping corners, crossed central tracks which also loop at their intersection and the square track. Tracks are marked with squares, but irregularly, approximately nine or ten in each track. Swezey and Bittman 1983: 380 give a poor drawing of the original.
Confidence 100
Source Codex Borbonicus., Swezey, W. and B. Bittman. 1983. "El rectángulo de cintas y el patolli: nueva evidencia de la antiguuedad, distribucíon, variedad y formas de practicar este juego precolumbino." Mesoamérica 6:374-416.
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