epatl (FCbk11f14r)

epatl (FCbk11f14r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring a skunk (epatl), 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 near the image in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a standing, dark gray animal with a long tail, curving upward. Perhaps contrary to expectations, there is no white stripe along its back.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Two other examples in this digital collection for the epatl show black stripes on its back. A third example just might have a white stripe running down the length of the back, although it is barely visible.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Epatl

Gloss Normalization:

epatl

Gloss 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.

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

zorrillos, animals, animales

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

epa(tl), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/epatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

el zorrillo

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. 14r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/14r/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.”

Historical Contextualizing Image: