Acatepehua (MH672v)

Acatepehua (MH672v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or place of origin, Acatepehua (perhaps “Possessor of Reed-Mountain”) is attested here as pertaining to a man. The glyph shows a frontal view of a hill or mountain (tepetl) as a naturalistic sketch. It has two curving lines coming down the front that attempt to give it some three dimensionality. Five vertical, segmented reeds (acatl) stand along the top edge of the hill. These are squared off at their tops. If this is not literally about a mountain, the ending (-tepehua) could refer to some type of defeat, and the compound could be partially phonetic.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This is a place name in what is now the state of Chiapas. An archaeological site called Acatepehua is also known for having an archaic shell midden.

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

phonetic possibilities

Syntax:

noun(s)

possessive pronoun

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Landscape Features

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

War or Conflict

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

three-dimensionality

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

cañas, montañas, cerros, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

aca(tl), reed or cane, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acatl
tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-hua (possessive suffix), has, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua
tepehua, to throw down, defeat or conquer, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepehua

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Poseedor de Caña-Montaña

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 672v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=425&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

"y" for i

Historical Contextualizing Image: