cuezcomatl (FCbk7f16r)

This iconographic example, featuring a corncrib (cuezcomatl) is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making potential comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the keywords chosen by the team behind the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss or companion text. This example shows two Nahua men, wearing capes tied on the shoulder, working together to put baskets full of dried corn cobs into a storage structure that is almost twice the height of the man standing on the ground next to it. The other man is up inside the corncrib, receiving a basket from the man below. In front of the cuezcomatl is a third man, sitting on the ground next to a pile of dried maize. He seems to be collecting the cobs into a basket. The cuezcomatl in this example appears to be made from horizontal planks (probably huapalli). Stones (drawn and painted in a glyph-like manner, with two colors and wavy diagonal lines across the middle) hold the structure off the ground somewhat. Stones also appear on the top of the structure, perhaps with the purpose of holding a lid on. In the lower right corner of the scene is a rounded pot with handles on each side. It is brimming over with contents that may be foamy, such as octli (or pulque, in Spanish), which typically has this kind of dots.