Acuitlatepehua (MH674v)

Acuitlatepehua (MH674v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Acuitlatepehua (perhaps “Possessor of Mountain Lake Foam”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a hill or mountain (tepetl) with swirling water at the top and four offshoots. All of the water contains lines of current (movement). At the base of the mountain is a horizontal row of eight small circles.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See some other glyphs below that end in -tepehua (mountain + possessive).

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)

visible movement

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Landscape Features

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

shading and parallel line hatching

three-dimensionality

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

horizontal

Keywords:

cerros, montañas, agua, espuma, lagos, posesivos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

acuitla(tl), plant-based lake foam that people collected, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acuitlatl
tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-hua (possessor suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Poseedor de Espuma de Lagos en las Montañas

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 674v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=429&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:

dropped "h"

Historical Contextualizing Image: