teocuitlamatzatzaztli (FCbk9fiiv)

teocuitlamatzatzaztli (FCbk9fiiv)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This iconographic example, featuring two finger rings (teocuitlatlmatzatzaztli) is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making potential comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from a glyph that is glossed as such in the Codex Sierra-Texupan. There is no gloss here in the Digital Florentine Codex, and the keywording in the DFC only refers to jewels (cozcatl) and jadeite (chalchihuitl), in particular. This example shows a bird’s eye view of two apparently gold (teocuitlatl) finger rings (matzatzaztli) that are much like the one in the Codex Sierra-Texupan, but here the stones are turquoise blue, not green, and the stones are set with gold surrounding them.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Examples of finger rings are very rare so far in this digital collection (August 2025). TheMetropolitan Museum in New York has what it refers to as a Mixtec finger ring that was apparently deposited in a cenote in Chichen Itza.

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: 
Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment
Metals, Minerals, Mining
Turquoise or Jadeite
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
blue (turquoise)
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bird's eye view
circle, circular or rounded
Keywords: 

anillos, joyas, turquesas, oro

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

teocuitla(tl), precious metal, gold or silver (but here, gold), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teocuitlatl
matzatzaz(tli), a finger ring, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/matzatzaztli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

el anillo de dedo

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 9: The Merchants", fol. iiv, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/9/folio/iiv/images/e63f158d-bd... Accessed 26 August 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: 

teocuitlamatzatzaztli (CST43)