choca (FCbk9f25r)

This iconographic example, featuring a young man crying (the verb, choca), 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, per se. This example shows the young man’s head in profile, facing toward what are probably his parents. Three short streams of tears come down his visible cheek. Two speech scrolls, one blue and one red, emerge from his mouth. He may be speaking while also crying. He has a cloak tied on his shoulder, so he has some social status. The contextualizing image shows that he works with feathers, and the man and woman admonishing him sit facing him, their mixing pots in front of them. While the man is closer, both the man and woman are in a similar space (albeit with different sitting postures), with similar accoutrements, and they both express powerful words.