teuhtli (FCbk11f230r)

teuhtli (FCbk11f230r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This iconographic example, featuring dust (teuhtli), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the text near the image in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows about thirteen large, rising swirls, curving mostly to the left, although, a few curl to the right. These dust swirls apparently rise from some soil below, but that base is barely visible.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The best comparison for this iconographic example is the hieroglyph for the personal name Teuhtli (MH527v). But Teuhcatl, a personal name and the name of a divine force (perhaps like a “dust devil,” that magically twists up from the ground?) appears with considerable frequency in this digital collection.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

teuhtli

Gloss/Text 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: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke
Gender (male)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
shading and parallel line hatching
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
three-dimensionality
Other Cultural Influences: 
Spanish/European
Keywords: 

remolino, remolinos de polvo, polvorienta, polvoriento, polvo arremolinado

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

teuh(tli), dust, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teuhtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

el polvo

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 11: Earthly Things", fol. 230r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/230r/images/0 Accessed 16 November 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: 

Teuhtli (MH527v)

Teuhcatl (MH560v)