tecomatl (TK214v)
This painted example of iconography represents an earthenware cup or vessel, possibly the tecomatl. It is not glossed as such in Nahuatl, so this is a guess based on comparison with other elaborately made cups with stems. The top part of this vessel does resemble a xicalli (gourd vessel) with its terracotta color, rounded bottom, and red horizontal stripes up near the brim. The inverted cone-like red stem is somewhat unusual. It is small at the top and flared at the bottom. It has what look something like three greenish-brown legs on top of the inverted cone. Around the lower edge are small possibly green rounded shapes. This vessel is listed on this manuscript as a tribute item. This manuscript was produced as part of the community’s resistance to the unreasonable taxation being demanded vis-a-vis the size of the community, especially as the population was declining as a result of diseases inadvertently brought over from Europe.
Stephanie Wood
The tecomatl usually does have a stem. But if this is not a tecomatl, it may be a caxitl or even a xicalli (which became jícara in Spanish). A few hieroglyphic examples (not just iconographic examples) of the xicalli do also show stems. Perhaps this came about through influence from Europeans, who often drank from stemmed glasses.
Side Note: The folio numbers are not always clear in the copy published online by the British Museum. Marc Thouvenot gives this page the number K12_B in his TLACHIA digital collection, https://tlachia.iib.unam.mx/tepetlaoztoc/K12_B.
Stephanie Wood
cantaros y ollas
cántaros y ollas
Stephanie Wood
c. 1556
Jeff Haskett-Wood
copas, tallos, earthenware, ceramic, ceramics, cerámicas, jug, pot, olla, jarra, jarro, vessel, vessels, vasija de cerámica, cántaro, cántaros, xoctli, xoctepi, huicolli, atlacuihuani, tecomitl, tecontontli, apilolli, tributo, tributos, colonialismo, resistencia
tecoma(tl), earthenware cup of vessel, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecomatl
el vaso o una copa con tallo
Stephanie Wood
The Codex Kingsborough, also known as the Códice de Tepetlaoztoc, and the Memorial de los indios de Tepetlaoztoc, is not on display. It was transferred from the British Library and is now held by the British Museum. It is shared on line at: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Am2006-Drg-13964
©The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. Please also cite the <em>Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphsem>, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities Projects, 2020-present) and this URL.
