molcaxitl (MH528r)

molcaxitl (MH528r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the element molcaxitl (sauce bowl) has been carved from the compound personal name glyph Atl Imol (perhaps "The Water's Sauce Bowl") (see below). This typically bowl has three legs.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Containers, Dishes, Eating Utensils

Food, Eating, Cooking

Pottery, Earthenware

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Keywords:

sauces, sauce bowls, salsas, molcajetes

Museum/Rare Book/Realia Comparisons:

Museum/Rare Book/Realia Notes:

This sauce bowl with three legs and a rough interior (for grinding sauce ingredients) is labeled a molcajete (Spanish for molcaxitl) in the Museo del Templo Mayor. Photograph by Stephanie Wood, 18 January 2026.

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

molcaxi(tl), sauce bowl, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/molcaxitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

el molcajete

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 528r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=135&st=image.

Image Source, Rights:

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).