Anahuacatl (MH627r)

Anahuacatl (MH627r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity, Anahuacatl ("Person from Anahuac") is attested here as pertaining to a man. Anahuac can refer to the lakes around the capital or the coastal areas. It shows a swirling body of water with lines of current (movement) and turbinate shells and water droplets splashing off the flow.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Domīgo
anavacatl

Gloss Normalization:

Domingo Anahuacatl

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)

visible movement

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Shells

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

bird's eye view

Keywords:

remolino, agua, Ciudad de México-Tenochtitlan, persona de la orilla del agua

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Anahuac, next to the water, or Mexico City, Valley of Mexico, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/anahuac
-catl (affiliation suffix), person from, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(persona de Anahuac)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 627r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=336st=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: