apilolli (FCbk6f192v)

apilolli (FCbk6f192v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring a water jug (apilolli) is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making potential comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the keywords chosen by the team behind the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss. This example shows a large pottery jug with a large curving handle and a pointed spout. It is shown in profile, facing toward the viewer’s left. It has shading for three-dimensionality, and it sits on the ground. These represent European artistic influences.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The earthenware jug called a comitl does not usually have the pointed spout that this apilolli has. This is the first apilolli in this digital collection as of July 2025. The comitl, on the other hand, is very prevalent. In part, the prevalence of the comitl seems to be owing to its use as a phonetic indicator for the syllable -co-. Closer in appearance to the apilolli is the atlacuihuani (see below).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)

Date of Manuscript:

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Beverages

Containers, Dishes, Eating Utensils

Pottery, Earthenware

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives:

shading and parallel line hatching

three-dimensionality

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

jarras, olla, ollas, barro, cerámica, cántaro, cántaros

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

apilol(li), a pottery jar for carrying water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/apilolli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

la jarra de agua

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 6: Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy", fol. 192v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/6/folio/192v/images/0 Accessed 9 July 2025.

Image Source, Rights:

Images of the digitized Florentine Codex are made available under the following Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International). For print-publication quality photos, please contact the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana ([email protected]). The Library of Congress has also published this manuscript, using the images of the World Digital Library copy. “The Library of Congress is unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection. Absent any such restrictions, these materials are free to use and reuse.”

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