cihuatlapalihui (FCBk10F35v)

cihuatlapalihui (FCBk10F35v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This may be a drawing of the compound glyph for the adjective cihuatlapalihui (a robust woman). As the contextualizing image shows, the glyph is positioned next to a kneeling woman. One element might involve a heart (yollotl) element. Another shows the head of a man, looking toward the woman

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)
Date of Manuscript: 

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
day name
Syntax: 
adjective
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (female)
Gender (male)
Hair (human or animal)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
blue (turquoise)
green (light)
red
tan
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
profile view
shading and parallel line hatching
three-dimensionality
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
3
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

cihuatlapalihui, a robust woman, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cihuatlapalihui

Image Source: 

Library of Congress, https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/10/folio/35v

Image Source, Rights: 

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Historical Contextualizing Image: