iyetl (Mdz12r)
This element for incense, perfume, or tobacco iyetl) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Xochiyetlan. It is a horizontal stick or tube, with the left half blackened.
Stephanie Wood
The black material is likely an aromatic substance (tobacco/nicotine incense, or perfume). This iyetl resembles the acayetl tobacco smoking tube found in Book II, folio 26 verso of the Florentine Codex. Iyetl and acayetl are a challenge to distinguish visually. In his translations of the Cantares, John Bierhorst (Ballads of the Lords of New Spain, 2010, 24, note 117) calls iyetl "smoking tubes" and acayetl "reed incense."
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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).
