Iyexochitl (Verg29v)

Iyexochitl (Verg29v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This simplex Nahuatl hieroglyph is a black-line drawing of the personal name Iyexochitl (“Tobacco Flower”), attested here as a man’s name. The flower itself is rather simple, upright with three visible petals.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The gloss gives a clue to the reading for this hieroglyph, but the biggest aid is the appearance of another example of this name with a compound hieroglyph that adds the element iyetl (tobacco), showing a little tobacco tube below the same flower (on folio 32 verso).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

mīn. ynhexuchitl.

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Martín Iyexochitl

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Vergara, Codex (Verg)

Date of Manuscript:

1539

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

near Tepetlaoztoc, near Tetzcoco

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

Keywords:

flores, número, números, calendario, calendarios, tonalpohualli, pétalos, nombres de hombres, men’s names

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

iyexoch(itl), tobacco flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/iyexochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Flor de Tabaco

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Available at Codex Vergara, folio 29v, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84528032/f66.item.zoom, accessed 22 February 2026. The Vergara is associated with Tepetlaoztoc, in the larger region of Tetzcoco, c. 1539–1543.
“Source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF.” We would also appreciate a citation to the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/.

Image Source, Rights:

Image Rights: The non-commercial reuse of images from the Bibliothèque nationale de France is free as long as the user is in compliance with the legislation in force and provides the citation: “Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France” or “Source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF.” We would also appreciate a citation to the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/

Historical Contextualizing Image: