ce metlatl yhuan metlapilli = a metate and rolling pin (Saltillo, 1627)
Leslie S. Offutt, "Levels of Acculturation in Northeastern New Spain; San Esteban Testaments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 22 (1992), 409–443, see page 428–429.
The stone was principally used for grinding maize. (Mexico, early seventeenth-century)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 248.
itlan xaquj in metlatl, in atl, in venchioaliztli: auh ximotetlacamachiti, maca oppa tinotzalo: iehoatl in pillotl, in velnenotzaliztli, in nezcaliliztli, in tlaimacaxiliztli, in mauhcanemjliztli: auh njman ie iehoatl in iocuxcanemjliztli = Be diligent with the grinding stone, the chocolate, the making of offerings. And be obedient; do not be summoned twice. Nobility is the good doctrine, the way of prudence, the way of reverence, the way of fear, and then the way of peace (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 217.
NicmaCatiuh yn noConeuh ontetl metlatl Ce huey Ce tepito Conanas ytoCa ana de Santiago = I am giving my child named Ana de Santiago two metates [grinding stones], a big one and a small one; she is to take them (1673, Mexico City)
Jonathan Truitt, Sustaining the Divine in Mexico Tenochtitlan: Nahuas and Catholicism, 1523–1700 (Oceanside, CA: The Academy of American Franciscan History; Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018), 248, 253.
Also seen in Oaxaca as a tool for grinding cochineal (2007, Teotitlan del Valle).