temillotl (FCbk6f212r)

temillotl (FCbk6f212r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring warrior hairstyle (temillotl) 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 a ruler sitting on an icpalli with a high back. His hair on the top of his head is tied up into a vertical ponytail that was associated with warriors. The contextualizing image supports this reading of a warrior, because it supplied a macuahuitl (a club embedded with obsidian blades) and a chimalli (war shield). The noble status of this seated man is suggested by the cup near him that has an elaborate design and shows a stirring stick (suggestive of a cacao beverage) coming out of the top of the cup.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This warrior hairstyle can stand straight up, but it also tips over in some cases. Four Nahuatl hieroglyphs for the personal name Temillo appear below. The hair turns over sideways in two, and in the other two, stones have protrusions at right angles. A fifth has a curling volute to represent the hair, and another one has hair standing straight on end. Finally, given that temillotl can also refer to a column, one of the glyphs for the name Temillo shows the lower end and base of a stone column. It is interesting how prevalent this name is among the tribute payers of the Huexotzinco area.

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)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Hair (human or animal)

Politics, Power, Governance

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

tied, bound, or bundled

Keywords:

hair, pelo, cabello, cabellos, guerreros, Temilo

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

temillo(tl), a warrior hairstyle with a tied, columnar group of hair, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temillotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

el 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 6: Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy", fol. 212r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/6/folio/212r/images/0. Accessed 10 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: