Acaquilpan (Osu11r)

Acaquilpan (Osu11r)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This painted compound Nahuatl hieroglyph represents the place name Acaquilpan (perhaps, “At the Water Sound”). At the base of the compound is a small body of water (atl) with tiny lines of current (for movement) and a blue wash. Coming out of each side of the water may be two leaves of edible herbs (quilitl). Above the water is a segmented cane or reed (acatl) dressed up with red and white feathers. The hieroglyph may literally speak about a place with two kinds of prominent vegetation (canes and herbs), where the water serves as a phonetic syllable for the A- start of acatl. Another approach might be to see the water as important in the landscape and -caquil- as speaking to the sound of the water. Either way, this compound would be both logographic and phonographic.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See below for an example of the edible herb (quilitl) and a couple examples of canes or reeds that are dressed with feathers.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

acaquilpan

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Acaquilpan

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Osuna, Codex (Osu)

Date of Manuscript:

1551–1565

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

segmented

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

multidirectional

Keywords:

caña, quelites, agua, escuchar, nombres de lugares

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

aca(tl), cane or reed, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acatl
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
quili(tl), edible herbs, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quilitl
caquiliz(tli), sound, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/caquiliztli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Lugar con el Sonido del Agua

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Library of Congress Online Catalog and the World Digital Library, Osuna Codex, or Painting of the Governor, Mayors, and Rulers of Mexico, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_07324/. The original is located in the Biblioteca Nacional de España.

Image Source, Rights:

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