Temillo (FCbk8f6r)

Temillo (FCbk8f6r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph features the personal name of a post-contact governor of Tlatelolco. It shows a stone (tetl), which provides the phonetic start to the name. The compound also includes a human hand, which usually has a reading of maitl or ma (to take or capture), although in this instance the reading is unclear. A third item in the compound may be a pillar or column, but it is not standing up, so this is a challenge.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The range of glyphs for temillotl or the name Temillo that is already in this digital collection does not yet (July 2025) include a match for this one.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Don pedro temilo

Gloss Normalization:

Don Pedro Temillo

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:

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Hair (human or animal)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Politics, Power, Governance

Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Keywords:

columna, columnas, pilar, pilares, peinados, cabello, pelo, guerrero, gobernantes, gobernadores, gobernante, gobernador, tlatoani, tlatoque, tlahtoani, tlahtohqueh, nombres famosos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

temillo(tl), a pillar or column, a warrior’s columnar hairstyle, and a personal name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temillotl
ma, to take or capture in hunting, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ma-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

la columna o el pilar, o un peinado de guerrero

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. 6r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/8/folio/6r/images/ab6c5bda-a55... Accessed 22 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.”

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