coyolli (FCbk10f63v)

This iconographic example, featuring a small bell (coyolli), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making 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 yellow bell (coyolli) with a small loop at the top, an opening at the bottom for the sound of the clapper to escape, four horizontal lines of design, and some dots between the two pairs of lines. The yellow color suggests gold, but these bells were also often made of copper. In the contextualizing image, there are two bells and other items laid out on a woven mat (petlatl). Some of the other objects, which are identified by the DFC keywording team, are metal objects (tepoztli), an adze (mactepoztli), an awl (coyolmitl), a hole punch (tepozomitl), and perhaps a metal harpoon (tepoztlachichtli).