iyetl (Mdz12r)
This element for incense, perfume, or tobacco (iyetl) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Xochiyetlan (see below). This element is a horizontal stick or tube, with the left half blackened. The dark part may be a roll of dried tobacco leaves stuffed into the end of a bamboo-like reed (perhaps what is called carrizo in Spanish).
Stephanie Wood
Iyetl and acayetl look very much alike, but apparently one is a smoking tube with tobacco and the other is an incense reed according to John Bierhorst, in his translations of the Cantares Mexicanos. [Ballads of the Lords of New Spain, 2010, 24, note 117.]
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c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
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tobacco, tobaco, incense, incienso, perfume
iye(tl), incense, perfume, tobacco, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/iyetl
el tabaco, el incienso, o el perfume
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Codex Mendoza, folio 12 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 34 of 188.
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).
