xolo (Mdz13r)
This attestation of the element "xolo" (page, servant, or enslaved person) helps define the place name Xolochiuhyan. The servant is an old man with gray hair, a wrinkled face, and a white shirt with vertical stripes. His wrinkled (xolochtic) face serves as a phonetic complement to the noun xolo.
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The indication that this man is a servant or slave is probably imbedded in his clothing. The glyph has multiple readings: xolo, xolochtic (wrinkled), and the place name Xolochiuhyan.
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c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
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servants, slaves, pages, elderly, aged, old man, old men, wrinkled, arrugado, pajes, servientes, esclavos, viejos
xolo, page, servant, or slave, https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/xolo
xolochtic, wrinkled, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xolochtic
el paje, el esclavo
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Codex Mendoza, folio 13 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 36 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).
