Amaxac (MH786r)

Amaxac (MH786r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Amaxac (perhaps "At the Y in the River"). Alternately, this glyph could be considered a simplex, if this is a common way of representing a bifurcation (maxactli) in a river. The water (atl) is painted turquoise-blue. It is filled with thick and thin black lines, seemingly to indicate current (movement). The swirls suggest the same. Two of the swirls are round and one is rectangular, like the xicalcoliuhqui stepped-fret design on war shields.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

ān māxāc

Gloss Normalization: 

Amaxac

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: 
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
visible movement
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Landscape Features
Movement
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
blue (turquoise)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
rectangular
Y-shapes
bird's eye view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

nombres de lugares, barrios, topónimos, agua, remolinos, bifurcación

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

a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
maxac(tli), crotch, bifurcation, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maxactli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

"Una Bifurcación del Río"

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 786r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=646&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: 
intrusive "n"
intrusive overbar
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Amaxac (Mdz39r)

Atl Amaxac (CmpRG)

xicalcoliuhqui (Mdz64r)