Chimalpopoca (FCbk8f1r)

Chimalpopoca (FCbk8f1r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This painted compound glyph for the personal name Chimalpopoca (literally, “Shield-Smoke”) refers to a ruler of Tenochtitlan in the fifteenth century. The shield (chimalli) is circular with a red border, a white center, two turquoise-blue squares and a turquoise and white triangle in the middle. Below the circle hang brown feathers, perhaps eagle feathers, although the lower tips are turquoise blue. At least five curls of brown smoke arise from the top of the shield. To smoke is popoca, the latter part of the name.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

In the other glyphs for Chimalpopoca, below, the shield designs are quite different.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Chimalpopoca,

Gloss Normalization: 

Chimalpopoca

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Date of Manuscript: 

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

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Syntax: 
Writing Features: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
Keywords: 

shields, escudos, rodelas, feathers, plumas, humo, nombres famosos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 
Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

literalmente, Escudo-Humea (nombre de un gobernante)

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. 1r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/8/folio/1r/images/0 Accessed 21 June 2025.

Image Source, Rights: 

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