coyametl (FCbk11f11r)

coyametl (FCbk11f11r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This iconographic example, featuring a pig-like animal (coyametl), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the text on the same page as the image in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a dark-gray, hairy animal, with a white area around the eye, and a white fang protruding from its mouth. It has a curl in its tail, and hooves on its feet.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

At this point in the digital collection (October 2025), there is only one other example of a coyametl, which comes from the Codex Mendoza. The text in the DFC states that this animal is much like the “pig from Castile,” which was brought over to the Americas on the ships of the invaders and settlers.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

cuiametl

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

coyametl

Gloss/Text 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: 
Animals: Misc.
Food, Eating, Cooking
Teeth Protruding/Noticeable
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
blue (turquoise)
gray
green (light)
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

puercos, pecaríes, saíno, saínos, animales silvestres, comida

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

coyame(tl), a peccary or pig-like animal, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coyametl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

un animal parecido al puerco o pecarí

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 11: Earthly Things", fol. 11r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/11r/images/0 Accessed 7 October 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.”

Orthography: 
"u" for o
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

coyametl (Mdz51r)