oceloehuatl (FCbk9fiiv)

oceloehuatl (FCbk9fiiv)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring a jaguar skin (oceloehuatl), 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 bird’s eye view of a full animal skin, laid out flat. It includes the tail and claws. It is orange/brown with black spots.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Various animal skins (often, as ehuatl) appear in this collection. See examples below, including two employed as phonetic indicators (e.g., Motenehua, Tlatolehua).

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:

Animals: Misc.

Leather, hides

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black

brown

orange/terracotta

Shapes and Perspectives:

bird's eye view

spotted or mottled

Keywords:

pieles, animales, jaguares, manchas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

oceloehua(tl), jaguar skin or hide, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/oceloehuatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

la piel de jaguar

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.”

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