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pochtlan.

Headword: 
pochtlan.
Principal English Translation: 

merchantry, or a place with a market (sometimes spelled Puxtla or Puxtlan)

Orthographic Variants: 
puchtlan
Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents pochtlan in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

The best evidence that Puxtla refers to Pochtlan is found in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco (folio 525 recto), where there is a barrio glossed both "Puxtla" and "pochtlan." See the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs and search Pochtlan.

puchtlan tenan, teta. = the mother, the father of mechantry. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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), 59.

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