Amapan (MH838v)

Amapan (MH838v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Amapan (perhaps “Paper Flag” or “Paper Banner”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows an upright flag (pamitl) on a stick, flying toward the viewer’s right. That this is a paper (amatl) banner is partly given away by the shape, which is squarer than the usual long rectangle.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Hieroglyphs for amatl tend be square, as seen below. If this is two elements (paper and banner) merged into one, then perhaps it could be considered a compound, as it is not just a banner or just a piece of paper. Both visuals are there. An alternative reading for the flag could be that it serves as a phonetic indicator for the locative suffix -pan meaning “on” or “in,” resulting in the name “On the Paper.” But this latter option seems less likely to be a personal name than a place name.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

dionisio amapā

Gloss Normalization: 

Dionisio Amapan

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flags, banners
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Paper
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
rectangular
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

banderas, cuadrados, rectángulos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

ama(tl), paper, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/amatl
pam(itl) or pan(itl), flag, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pamitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Bandera de Papel

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 838v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=751&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Amacozatl (MH795r)

Amacozatl (MH663r)

Amacoztitlan (Mdz23r)

Amaxoch (MH795v)

Pantli (MH607v)

Pantli (MH616r)