tlaolli (CST25)
tlaolli (CST25)
This painting of the simplex glyph for the term tlaolli (dried corn kernels) shows a frontal view of a red container with a small curving handle on the right and one on the left. The container (perhaps a fanega or an almud, in Spanish, which were prevalent as measures in the pueblos of New Spain) is slightly wider at the top than the bottom, coming out of the top of the container are many kernels, mostly white and with a few that are dark gray.
Stephanie Wood
Stephanie Wood
1550–1564
Jeff Haskett-Wood
maíz, mazorcas, granos, comida
Stephanie Wood
Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 10: The People", fol. 39v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/10/folio/39v/images/0 Accessed 10 September 2025
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