Huitznahuatlailotlac (FCbk8f6v)

Huitznahuatlailotlac (FCbk8f6v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the personal name or titles of Huitznahuatlailotlac (or Huitznahuatl Tlailotlac) shows two prominent elements. The top one is a horizontal arrow of segmented, yellow-colored cane, a black point, two feathers–one perhaps down feather in gray and white, and one red wing feather–and a yellow bifurcated tail. Below the arrow may be a vertical, stylized thorn (huitztli) with its point down, in yellow, and with a turquoise-blue center. At the top is a red ring and a white circle with a turquoise-blue center.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Other glyphs for Huitznahuatl (see examples, below) differ from this one. The lower part just might be a chalchihuitztli, considering the iconography of that glyph (shown below). See also the unusual glyph for Xayaque.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

vitznaoatlaylotlac

Gloss Normalization:

Huitznahuatlailotlac

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)

Date of Manuscript:

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Politics, Power, Governance

Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

horizontal

segmented

vertical, upright

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

undetermined as yet

Keywords:

espina, espinas, títulos, gobierno, gobernante, gobernador, gobernantes, gobernadores, tlatoani, tlatoque, tlatoani, tlahtohqueh, nombres famosos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Huitznahua(tl), a lordly title and a personal name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/Huitznahuatl
Tlailotlac, a high magistrate, an ethnicity, or a personal name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/Tlailotlac

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(un título alto, o un nombre personal)

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. 6v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/8/folio/6v/images/0692a012-d12... Accessed 23 July 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:

"o" for u, uh, or hu

"v" for u, uh, or hu

"y" for i

Historical Contextualizing Image: