Tecax (MH522r)
This simplex glyph for the personal name Tecax ("Grinding Bowl," attested here as a man's name) shows a frontal view of a cross-sectioned stone trough and a grinding stone painted gray. The bowl has three small legs visible and a thick, U-shaped bowl. The pestle is relatively smaller, and it narrows at the top where someone would hold onto it.
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The word tecaxitl is a compound of stone (tetl) and vessel (caxitl). Another container for foods and beverages is the xicalli, which is usually made from a gourd. The "name" Tecax could possibly refer to the occupation of making or selling such grinding bowls or of doing the grinding. Alternately, there is also a name (possibly) called Tencax, bowl-lipped. See below.
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pedro tecax
Pedro Tecax
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1560
José Aguayo-Barragán
recipiente, contenedor, cuenco, molcajetes, containers, vessels, bowls, grinding, moler, moliendo, nombres de hombres
tecax(itli), grinding bowl, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecaxitli
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
caxi(tl), a vessel that holds liquids, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/caxitl-0
Molcajete
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 522r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=183&st=image
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