Cuauhnochtli (FCBk8F6v) | Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs

Cuauhnochtli (FCBk8F6v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This multicolored drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuauhnochtli is attested here as a man's name.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)

Date of Manuscript:

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

Syntax:

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Food, Eating, Cooking

Mouth/Beak Open

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Cuauhnochtli, a ruler of Tlatelolco in the colonial period, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhnochtli
cuauhnoch(tli), eagle-cactus fruit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhnochtli-0
cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
noch(tli), the fruit of the prickly pear cactus, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nochtli

Image Source:

Library of Congress, https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/8/folio/6v

Image Source, Rights:

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