Apantemoc (MH878v)

Apantemoc (MH878v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Apantemoc (“The Canal Descended”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a footprint heading downwards (for the verb, temo, to descend). At the site of the toes, the footprint intersects perpendicularly with a horizontal stretch of water (likely a canal, apantli), which has three short streams of water running downward (also for the verb, temo, to descend). Each of these short streams has a line of current (movement) in the middle and a shell or droplet at the lower tip.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Glyphs for apantli will sometimes show a cutaway view that exposes a walled framework, showing construction with different colored layers. These are especially true in the earlier Codex Mendoza (c. 1541). But apantli can also just appear as a flow of water.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

miguel apātemoc

Gloss Normalization:

Miguel Apantemoc

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)

verb

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Footprint(s), human

Gender (male)

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

agua, canales, bajar, descender, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

El Canal Bajó

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 878v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=829&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: