See an image that represents silla in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
onca yez ce xilla ypan motlaliz yancuic frioste = There will be a seat on which the new prioste will sit.
Fray Alonso de Molina, Nahua Confraternities in Early Colonial Mexico: The 1552 Nahuatl Ordinances of fray Alonso de Molina, OFM, ed. and trans., Barry D. Sell (Berkeley: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2002), 100–101.
nicpia se silla yca freno espuelas = I have a saddle with its bridle and spurs. (Saltillo, 1682)
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 434–435.
çe caballo ensillado = a horse with saddle (San Pablo Tepemaxalco, Toluca Valley, 1691)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 128.
Nitlanahuatia ome yunta bueyes Ca yehuatl nicCahuilia noçiuh se Caballo ençillado yuã Caxa ome achas yuã mochi Santoz Santaz çe CuetzComtal nicCahuilia noxpochto Juana = I order that I leave to my wife two yokes of oxen, a horse with a saddle, a chest, two axes, and all the male and female saints; I leave a corncrib to my little daughter Juana. (San Pablo Tepemaxalco, Toluca Valley, 1695)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 146.
monamacaz nocavallo çayyauh aoctle silla yn ipatiuh yezqui cavallo (Tlaxcala, 1566)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 1.
silla xinete yca coxinillo sin estribus yhuan Almardiga mopiya sin freno = a riding saddle with saddle-pad, without stirrups, and a halter without bridle [S. Francisco Analcotitlan (Jalisco?), 1652]
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 8, 80–81.
omonamac ce silla xineta yca coxinillo yhuan almartiga yca mochi Reata = a riding saddle with saddle-pad was sold, and a halter with all its rope [S. Francisco Analcotitlan (Jalisco?), 1652]
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 8, 82–83.
birey san ycxipan yn isishuauh yca silla de manos...auh yn omoceup yca carroz = the viceroy was just on foot; his wife was in a sedan chair...they returned in carriages
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 116–117.
xilla = seat
Fray Alonso de Molina, Nahua Confraternities in Early Colonial Mexico: The 1552 Nahuatl Ordinances of fray Alonso de Molina, OFM, ed. and trans., Barry D. Sell (Berkeley: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2002), 6.
birey san ycxipan yn isishuauh yca silla de manos = the viceroy was just on foot; his wife was in a sedan chair.
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 116–117.