Atlacuihuayan (Osu34v)

Atlacuihuayan (Osu34v)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This painted compound Nahuatl hieroglyph shows a ceramic water pitcher with water splashing out of the top in three short streams with a droplet or bead at the end of each one. This may be a jug that would be taken to a water source to bring water back to the community. Thus, the translation of Atlacuihuayan may refer to a place where people regularly fetch water.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

For other examples of pitchers that were apparently used for fetching water, see the atlacuihuani (below) in our Visual Lexicon. That pitchers could be used for watering plants, see the example of the place name Tlaahuililpan (also below).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

atlacuihuayan

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Atlacuihuayan

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Osuna, Codex (Osu)

Date of Manuscript:

1551–1565

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Names (places)

Pottery, Earthenware

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

blue (turquoise)

tan

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

facing left

profile view

tripartite

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

barro, cerámica, agua, nombres de lugares, topónimos, place names

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
tlacuihua, to take, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacuihua
-yan, place where something is habitually done, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Lugar Donde la Gente Recoge Agua

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Library of Congress Online Catalog and the World Digital Library, Osuna Codex, or Painting of the Governor, Mayors, and Rulers of Mexico, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_07324/. The original is located in the Biblioteca Nacional de España.

Image Source, Rights:

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