tehuilotl (FCbk11f206v)

tehuilotl (FCbk11f206v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This iconographic example, featuring a rock crystal (tehuilotl), 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 near the image in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a cut, polished, and strung tehuilotl. This stone appears to be white, although it could be clear. The landscape setting shows European artistic influence.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This digital collection has one hieroglyph with a tehuilotl element (see below). That example, however, looks more like a chalchihuitl, with its coloring and mottled look.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

Tevilotl

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

tehuilotl

Gloss/Text 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: 
Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
frontal view
shading and parallel line hatching
three-dimensionality
Keywords: 

joya, joyas, piedras, piedra, cuarzo, gem, gems

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tehuilo(tl), rock crystal, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tehuilotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

la cristal de roca

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 11: Earthly Things", fol. 206v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/206v/images/0 Accessed 16 November 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: 
"v" for u, uh, or hu
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tehuiloyocan (Mdz26r)