Ahuitzotl (FCbk9f5r)

Ahuitzotl (FCbk9f5r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the personal name Ahuitzotl, a ruler of Tenochtitlan, 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 text (Ahuitzotzin) on the previous page (folio 4 verso). There is no gloss. This example on folio 5 recto shows a seated water dog (ahuitzotl) in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. Below this animal are three sprays of water (atl), each one painted turquoise blue, with a line of current (movement), and a white droplet/bead at the bottom. The water is a phonetic complement helping clarify that the animal’s name starts with A-.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This glyph is much like another one in this collection from the Florentine Codex (see below). It does vary somewhat from the examples in the Codex Mendoza.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Auitzotzin

Gloss Normalization:

Ahuitzotzin

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)

Date of Manuscript:

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals: Misc.

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Politics, Power, Governance

Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

blue (turquoise)

brown

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

bird's eye view

facing right

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

gobernante, gobernantes, gobernador, tlatoani, tlahtoani, tlatoque, tlahtohque, nombres de gobernadores, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Ahuitzotl, “Water Dog,’ eighth ruler of Tenochtitlan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/Ahuitzotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Ahuitzotl (nombre de un gobernador de Tenochtitlan)

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. 5r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/9/folio/5r/images/0 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.”

Orthography:

"u" for hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: