Ayotli (FCbk8f9v)

Ayotli (FCbk8f9v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for the personal name Ayotli (or Ayohtli, with the glottal stop, and Ayotzin, in the reverential) refers to a lord (tecuhtli) and ruler of Huexotla (Huejutla, today) shows a green and orange squash or gourd (ayotli) with a green stem and leaf. As the contextualizing image shows, the man associated with this name glyph is sitting on a tied bundle of reeds (a tolicpalli or acacpalli), and he wears an animal skin cape that connects him to the Chichimec culture.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See below for a couple of squashes to compare with this one.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Aiotzin

Gloss Normalization: 

Ayotzin

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)
Date of Manuscript: 

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Furniture
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
green (light)
orange/terracotta
Shapes and Perspectives: 
tied, bound, or bundled
Keywords: 

calabasa, calabasas, comida, plantas, teuctli, tlatoani, tlahtoani, tlatoque, tlahtohqueh, gobernador, gobernadores, gobernante, gobernantes, teuctli, hombres famosos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

ayo(tli), squash, calabash, pumpkin, gourd, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayotli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Calabasa

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 8: Kings and Lords", fol. 9v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/8/folio/9v/images/32c0c9e1-266... Accessed 28 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.”

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

ayotli (T1871:1)

tzilacayotli (Mdz40r)