cedazo (CST32)

cedazo (CST32)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This painting of the simplex glyph for the term cedazo (flour sieve) shows a circle with an outer border in white and a cross (+) inside the border. The result is, probably coincidentally, a quincunx shape. Each quadrant of the interior has a mesh pattern. This technology is European, which is suggested by the loanword and the look of the sieve, which may be made with metal mesh in a framework. But there is a term in Nahuatl that appears to be parallel to cedazo, and this is tlaceceloloni. Perhaps the latter is a neologism. See: Kevin Terraciano, Codex Sierra (2021), 120, 154.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

cedaços

Gloss Normalization: 

cedazos

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Sierra/Texupan, Codex (CST)
Date of Manuscript: 

1550–1564

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Santa Catalina Texupan, Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
frontal view
quincunx or quatrefoil
segmented
Other Cultural Influences: 
Mixtec
Spanish/European
Keywords: 

tamiz, tamices, cedazos, cernedores, separadores, harina de trigo

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

cedazo (a loanword from Spanish), a sieve, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cedazo
tlaceceloloni, a separator or perhaps a sifter, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaceceloloni
tex(tli), flour, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/textli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

cedazo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Códice Sierra-Texupan, plate 32, page dated 1560. Origin: Santa Catalina Texupan, Mixteca Alta, State of Oaxaca. Kevin Terraciano has published an outstanding study of this manuscript (Codex Sierra, 2021), and in his book he refers to alphabetic and “pictorial” writing, not hieroglyphic writing. We are still counting some of the imagery from this source as hieroglyphic writing, but we are also including examples of “iconography” where the images verge on European style illustrations or scenes showing activities. We have this iconography category so that such images can be fruitfully compared with hieroglyphs. Hieroglyphic writing was evolving as a result of the influence of European illustrations, and even alphabetic writing impacted it.
https://bidilaf.buap.mx/objeto.xql?id=48281&busqueda=Texupan&action=search

Image Source, Rights: 

The Biblioteca Digital Lafragua of the Biblioteca Histórica José María Lafragua in Puebla, Mexico, publishes this Códice Sierra-Texupan, 1550–1564 (62pp., 30.7 x 21.8 cm.), referring to it as being in the “Public Domain.” This image is published here under a Creative Commons license, asking that you cite the Biblioteca Digital Lafragua and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.

Orthography: 
"ç" for z or tz
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tlilayatl (MH663v)

Xiccayatl (MH809r)