choca (FCbk9f25r)

This iconographic example featuring a young man crying (the verb is choca) 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, per se. This example shows the young man’s head in profile, facing toward what are probably his parents (visible in the contextualizing image). Three short streams of tears come down his visible cheek. Two speech scrolls, one blue and one red, emerge from his mouth. He may be speaking while also crying. He has a cloak tied on his shoulder, so he has some social status.

The contextualizing image shows that he works with feathers. Perhaps he has made a mistake in his work. He is crying while apparently being admonished, perhaps by his parents (see the contextualizing scene). The probable parents sit facing him, each one with an identical mixing pot, which may suggest that they are involved in the feather work, too. This man and woman share the space, but the possible father is in front, closer to the possible son. The man and woman also have the usual gendered sitting postures, hairstyles, and clothing.