olli (Mdz37r)
This element for olli (rubber or rubber ball) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Teloloapan.
Unlike some of the glyphs, this ball does not have a white rim around it. Another thing to watch for is the way etl (beans) can look like the black rubber ball. See Chietlan (below, right), for an example.
c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
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ol(li), rubber, ball, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/olli
la pella de hule
Stephanie Wood
Codex Mendoza, folio 37 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 84 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).