Aten (MH568v)

Aten (MH568v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Aten (“Water-Edge,” or maybe "Lakeshore," attested here as a man’s name) builds on the portrait of the tribute payer, adding a flow of water (atl)] under his chin and lips (tentli). The water has lines of current (movement), including one little swirl, and it throws off two little streams with droplets at the tips.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

If -ten is a preterit form of tema, to fill up, then perhaps this name means "Water-Filled."

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juā aten

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Aten

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
visible movement
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
profile view
facing right
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

water, agua, lips, labios, edge, orilla, shore

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

a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
ten(tli), lip, edge, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tentli
tēma, to fill something up, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tema

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

La Orilla del Agua

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 568v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=216&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: 

atl (Mdz47r)

tentli (Mdz17v)

Tenton (MH526v)