the scepter, the staff of justice (see Molina) (partly a loanword from Spanish, justicia, justice)
Orthographic Variants:
justicia topilli
Alonso de Molina:
iusticia topilli. vara de justicia. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 44v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.