tlatzetzeloloni (FCbk10f18r)
This iconographic example, featuring what appears to be a sieve (tlatzetzeloloni), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making possible comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from a comparison with a glyph labeled cedazo in the Codex Sierra-Texupan that also appears in this collection. They have slight differences, but a similar purpose. Unfortunately, the term does not appear in either the keywording or the text on the page where this image appears in the Digital Florentine Codex. This example shows an oval, probably wooden, tan or yellow, hoop with a perhaps metal mesh attached to the frame in various places. It is the contextualizing image about the making of mortar by some (male) stone masons that suggests this is a sieve. It may well have been used to sift sand (xalli) for use in the mortar.
Stephanie Wood
Research may tell whether a sieve such as this was Indigenous or a European introduction. Another sieve in the Codex Sierra-Texupan (below) has a Spanish language identified (cedazo), but the codex does also mention a “tlaceceloloni.” This is a variant spelling of tlatzetzeloloni, which is supported in the Online Nahuatl Dictionary to mean sieve.
Stephanie Wood
1577
Jeff Haskett-Wood
cedazos, coladero, coladeros, construcción, estuco, mortero, tamices, albañil, albañiles, herramienta, herramientas
tlatzetzeloloni, a sieve, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatzetzeloloni
el cedazo, o el tamiz
Stephanie Wood
Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 10: The People", fol. 18r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/10/folio/18r/images/0 Accessed 5 September 2025.
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