Acapipiyol (MH737v)

Acapipiyol (MH737v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Acapipiyol (perhaps “Wild Honeybee of the Reeds”) is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a frontal or a bird’s eye view of a wild honeybee (pipiyolin) with its wings spread. The Aca- (reed) part of the name is not shown visually.

Description, 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)

reduplication (visual)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing left

bird's eye view

frontal view

Keywords:

insectos, abejas, silvestres, melíferas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

aca(tl), reed, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acatl
pipiyol(in), a wild honeybee, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pipiyolin

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente Abeja Melífera de las Cañas

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 737v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=553&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).

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