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dungeon, basement, hand-dug cave, mine
The Florentine Codex, Book 11, p. 270, has an illustration of a tlallancalli. The image also bears the number 913. The text reads: "An underground hand dug cave [or mine]. It means a house which stands within the ground. Nowhere is it lit. It is a place of misery, a house of weeping, a house of death, a house of the dead, a home for wild beasts."
auh yn oncan ynin ca teuhctlatolloc tlallancalco, çan inca moquetz yn tlallancalli ynic tetzauhtahtoque = And in a dungeon there was a trial; only a dungeon was provided for them as spreaders of scandal. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)