ixayotl (FCbk6f189r)

ixayotl (FCbk6f189r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This iconographic example, featuring tears (ixayotl) 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. This example shows the head of a man in profile, facing left. Near his eye, but not touching it, is a short stream of water with a bead-shaped droplet at the end. The stream has a short line of current (movement) down the middle. The context is that the man is sad and crying.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

That this is a Nahuatl hieroglyph is supported by the example below of Cahuallan, which makes reference to an abandoned woman with a tear (or tears) running down her cheek. The water is drawn in the pre-contact style of water.

Added 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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Emotions
Gender (male)
Movement
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
profile view
Keywords: 

lágrima, lágrimas, llora, llorar, triste, tristeza, choca

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

ixayo(tl), a tear, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixayotl
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
ix(tli), the eye, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

la lágrima

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 6: Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy", fol. 189r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/6/folio/189r/images/0 Accessed 7 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.”

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Cahuallan (Mdz13v)