mocuiltono (FCbk10f)

This iconographic example, featuring a rich man (mocuiltono, or mocuiltonoh, with the glottal stop), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the text on the page previous to the image in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a man seated on a high-back woven seat (icpalli), with considerable personal goods or property (tlatquitl) in front of him, including a large, highly decorated, red and gold cup (a tecomatl or a tecontapayolli, in the DFC keywording) and a turkey (totolin or huexolotl). He shares the floor with a wooden chest (toptli), and in the air in front of his face is a tripod mortar or sauce bowl (molcaxitl) and what may be a woven box (petlacalli), possibly containing eggs. As with so many Nahua men in this codex–from an urban setting–this elite man is dressed in white cotton trousers and a long-sleeve shirt, all covered with a cloak (tilmatli). The clothing is shaded for three-dimensionality, showing European artistic style influences.