nacochtli (FCbk6f33v)

nacochtli (FCbk6f33v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring a nose plug (nacochtli) 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 frontal view of a man’s head, with his face toward the viewer. He has long hair and a headband tied at the back. The ear plug is horizontal. It does not show much detail or color.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

As of July 2025, we have very few examples of a nacochtli in this digital collection. See below for one that is a Nahuatl hieroglyph and one that is another example intending to show the iconography.

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:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

horizontal

tied, bound, or bundled

Keywords:

orejeras, joyas, adorno de naríz, adornos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

nacoch(tli), ear plug or flare, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nacochtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

la orejera

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. 33r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/6/folio/33r/images/0. Accessed 5 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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