xilotl (MH487r)
This black-line drawing of the element for a tender, green ear of maize or corn (xilotl) shows a partially clad, partially uncovered cob with visible kernels. Some silk still appears at the top. It is leaning to the viewer's left, at a slight angle.
Stephanie Wood
The museum comparison image looks much like this glyph, which is supposed to be a tender young corn cob, but the cobs in the museum have become dried (cintli, or mazorca in Spanish).
Stephanie Wood
1560
Stephanie Wood
cobs, ears, elotes, corn, maíz
xilotl. Ears of maize on display at the Museo del Templo Mayor. Photograph by Stephanie Wood, 15 February 2023; this commentary and photo editing by Robert Haskett.
xilo(tl), tender ear of green maize, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xilotl
la mazorca tierna, el jilote, el elote
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 487r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=53&st=image.
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