xiuhtilmatli (Azca16)
This painted black-line drawing for the compound noun xiuhtilmatli (perhaps turquoise cape) shows a dark green or brown cape with a white fringe. The fabric has a pattern of perpendicular intersecting lines. To the left of this rectangle is a red gemstone, a red band with a white center and four small red circles spaced evenly and creating almost “corners” for the circle. Coming out of the top of the white center is a long vertical volute. Perhaps the gem refers to turquoise (xihuitl), even though this is not the usual sign for it and it is not painted a turquoise blue color.
Stephanie Wood
The translation of xihuitl as turquoise here could be incorrect, given that there is nothing obviously turquoise in the visuals. There are no other Xiuhtilmatli or Xiuhtilma glyphs in this database yet (as of May 2025).
Stephanie Wood
ihua xiutilmatli
ihuan xiuhtilmatli
Stephanie Wood
post-1550, possibly from the early seventeenth century.
Jeff Haskett-Wood
turquesas, textiles, capa, rectangular, regalos, volutas, círculos
xiuhtilma(tli), a turquoise color net cape with turquoise stones knotted into it, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xiuhtilmatli
xihu(itl), turquoise, greens, year, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xihuitl
and https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xihuitl-0
tilma(tli), a cape, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tilmatli
un tilma de turquesa
Stephanie Wood
The Codex Azcatitlan is also known as the Histoire mexicaine, [Manuscrit] Mexicain 59–64. It is housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and hosted on line by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=16&st=image
The Library of Congress is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.” But please cite Bibliothèque Nationale de France and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.
