ocotl (FCbk6f204r)

ocotl (FCbk6f204r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring a torch (ocotl) is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making potential comparisons with related hieroglyphs. There is a reference to the torch in the companion text, the Digital Florentine Codex. This example shows a frontal view of a vertical torch with a large flame at the top. The right side is shaded, giving the torch some three-dimensionality (showing European artistic influences).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Nahuatl hieroglyphs for ocotl often show pine trees, sometimes with pine cones to distinguish them from other types of trees. In a couple of examples, ocotl is shown as logs or pieces of wood.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

ocutl

Gloss Normalization:

ocotl

Gloss 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

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

shading and parallel line hatching

three-dimensionality

vertical, upright

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

pino, pinos, piña ,piñas, antorchas, fuego, llama

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

oco(tl), a torch made from fatwood pine, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ocotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

la antorcha

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. 204r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/6/folio/204r/images/0. Accessed 9 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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