Acachinan (MH603v)

Acachinan (MH603v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Acachinan (“Reed Chinampa,” attested here as a man’s name) shows four vertical, segmented reeds (acatl) joined at their base with a horizontal line. This line at the bottom offers a suggestion of soil, the agricultural plot (chinamitl) where the reeds grow. Unlike some representations of acatl, these plants are not showing leaves.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pedro acachina

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Acachinan

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stockraising
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
segmented
vertical, upright
Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

reeds, cañas, sementeras, parcelas, agricultural, plantas, chinampas

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

acachinan(tli), reed enclosure, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acachinantli
Acachinanco, place of a reed hedge, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acachinanco

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Sementera de Caña

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 603v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=289st=image.

Image Source, Rights: 

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Acachinan (MH503r)