yahualli (FCbk9f29r)
This iconographic example, featuring a round base (yahualli) for a round-bottomed pot, is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making potential comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from comparisons with another yahualli found in the Codex Mendoza (below) and the supportive terminology in our Online Nahuatl Dictionary. There is no gloss. This example shows a standing man who is holding a round-bottomed pot in his right hand and the woven ring (yahualli) in his left hand. The setting involves a scene from a banquet. Another man brings tamales.
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Another use for the yahualli was, for example, settling a teponaztli upon something so that it would not rock while being played. See below.
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Jeff Haskett-Wood
tecnología, la base para sostener una olla, cosas redondas, círculos, circles, rounded things, cantaros, ollas
yahual(li), something round or a base for a jug or pot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yahualli
el asentadero de olla
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Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 9: The Merchants", fol. 29r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/9/folio/29r/images/0 Accessed 29 August 2025.
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