pahuaxoni (FCbk11f139r)

This iconographic example, featuring something that can be cooked in a pot (pahuaxoni), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the text near the image in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a pot over a fire, practically overflowing with edible tubers called zacateztli. A fully clothed Nahua man (in profile, facing left) is seated next to the fire on a woven mat (petlatl) or on a backless woven seat (a type of icpalli). His clothing consists of the classic cloak (tilmatli), but he also wears a white cotton long-sleeve shirt and long pants, which show European influence. The shading that gives the cloth three-dimensionality shows such influence, too. He is stirring the pot with his right hand and putting another stick on the fire below the pot. The fire has three visible stones that hold the large pot (probably a comitl). A cooking fire with three stones that hold a pot could be called a tlecuilitl.