Acapetlahua (MH669v)

Acapetlahua (MH669v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Acapetlahua (“Possessor of a Reed Mat”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a bird’s eye view of a woven mat (petlatl). It is apparently made of reeds (acatl). It has something of a herringbone pattern.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The prefix Aca- is not a required element of a woven mat, which may raise the question as to whether it is taken for granted or is this an unusual petlatl?

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

possessive pronoun

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

segmented

woven

bird's eye view

Keywords:

esteras tejidas, petates, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

aca(tl), reed or cane, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acatl
petla(tl), woven mat, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/petlatl
-hua (suffix for possession), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Tiene Un Petate de Caña

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 669v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=419&st=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).

Orthography:

"u" for hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: