See an image that represents alcalde mayor in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
yn alcalde mayor D. astasio (Puebla, circa 1680–1700)
Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart, Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period, Linguistics 85 (Los Angeles, University of California Publications, 1976), Doc. 9.
oguito nevatl anechdeguipanosgue amo rey manel alcalde mayol çan nevatl (Sullivan ed. 2003: 41). =And he said, ‘It is me that you will serve and not the king nor the alcalde mayor; only me’. [annals (AHT, AJB, AP, AT, ZM), municipal council records (TA 174, TA 178, TA 187, TA 192, TA 206), petition (ANV 16, JSA, LJJ, PP), will(TT 58); time range: 1560–1759]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 72.
ytech quicacque yn señor allde mayor don pilipe de arrellano y moquetzaz pepenaloz ysiptla cabeçera quiaviztlan çan quizcaltiz yn ipiltzin don jolian. “They heard from the lord alcalde mayor don Felipe de Arellano that an acting cabecera ruler for Quiyahuiztlan should be set up and chosen, who would only raise don Julián’s son” (Lockhart, Berdan & Anderson eds. 1986: 109). [annals (AHT, AJB, AP, AT, ZM), municipal council records (TA 174, TA 178, TA 187, TA 192, TA 206), petition (ANV 16, JSA, LJJ, PP), will(TT 58); time range: 1560–1759]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 72.