Anahuacatl (MH720v)

Anahuacatl (MH720v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or ethnicity Anahuacatl (“Person from Anahuac”) is attested here as pertaining to a man. It shows water (atl, providing the start to the name, A-) surrounding something.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Knowing the gloss refers to Mexico City, is the glyph meant to be water surrounding an island? It also resembles some kind of circular wreath or garland with a tie hanging down at the bottom. Perhaps the answer will come from comparing this glyph with other glyphs for Anahuacatl (see below). For example, the Anahuacatl glyph from MH526v has little streamlets of water that resemble the one hanging down in the center of this glyph here.

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)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Landscape Features

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Keywords:

altepetl, ciudad de México, afiliación, etnicidad, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(una persona de Anahuac)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 720v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=519&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: