comitl (TK214v)
This painted example of iconography features a pottery jug or pot (comitl). It was listed on this page as one of many types of tribute in kind that were paid by the people of the altepetl of Tepetlaoztoc to the Spanish colonial overlord. This manuscript was produced as part of the community’s resistance to the unreasonable taxation being demanded vis-a-vis the size of the community, especially as the population was declining as a result of diseases inadvertently brought over from Europe.
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Another name for a vessel with this shape–with little handles on the sides in lieu of one large handle–was tecomitl. A smaller version was sometimes called a xoctepi. See examples below.
Side Note: The folio numbers are not always clear in the copy published online by the British Museum. Marc Thouvenot gives this page the number K12_B in his TLACHIA digital collection, https://tlachia.iib.unam.mx/tepetlaoztoc/K12_B.
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cantaros y ollas
cántaros y ollas
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c. 1556
Jeff Haskett-Wood
jug, pot, olla, jarra, jarro, vessel, vessels, vasija de cerámica, cántaros, xoctli, xoctepi, tecontontli, tributo, tributos, colonialismo, resistencia
comi(tl), earthenware vessel, pottery jug, pot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/comitl
el cántaro
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The Codex Kingsborough, also known as the Códice de Tepetlaoztoc, and the Memorial de los indios de Tepetlaoztoc, is not on display. It was transferred from the British Library and is now held by the British Museum. It is shared on line at: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Am2006-Drg-13964
©The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. Please also cite the <em>Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphsem>, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities Projects, 2020-present) and this URL.
