PREHISTORIC AND ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM, ROME
Sahagun’s account (chap. II) of the work of the lapidaries we herewith append, with the Nahuatl text and a translation of the French rendering by Seler.[38]
1. In tlateque tulteca ynic quitequi yn yztac tehuilotl yoan tlapaltehuilotl yoan chalchiuitl yoan quetzalitztli ynica teoxalli yoan tlaquauac tepuztli.
1. The lapidary artisans cut rock-crystal, amethyst, emerald, both common and precious, by means of emery and with an instrument of tempered copper:
2. Auh ynic quichiqui tecpatl tlatetzotzontli.
2. And they scraped it by means of cutting flint.
3. Auh ynic quicoyonia ynic quimamali teputztlacopintli.
3. And they dug it out (hollowed) and drilled it by means of a little tube of copper.
4. Niman yhuian quixteca quipetlaua quitemetzhuia, auh yn yc quicencaua.
4. And then they faceted it very carefully; they burnished (polished) it and gave it the final luster.