Atzompa (Chav10)

Atzompa (Chav10)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Atzompa (perhaps "Toward the High Water Mark” or "On the Moss," attested here as a man’s name) shows a spectacular spray of water {atl) with eight separate streams or flows, alternating droplets/beads and turbinate shells, and both rounded and rectangular, step-fret swirls. This water spins around and splashes off a man's head like it is hair (tzontli). This head is shown in profile looking toward the viewer's left. The locative suffix (-pa, toward) is not shown visually. The locative could also be -pan (on or at), with the final "n" inadvertently dropping away.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

There are various translations for Atzompan (also spelled Atzompa), from "high water mark," "at the top of the water," to "above the water," etc. "On the headwaters" could be a good translation in English, but not unless we knew that the headwaters of a river were nearby. Another possibility is "On the Moss."

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

atzomba

Gloss Normalization: 

Atzompa[n]

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Chavero, Codex (Chav)
Date of Manuscript: 

1578

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

San Agustín Atzompa, Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Syntax: 
locative (not visual)
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Hair (human or animal)
Names (places)
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
profile view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
spiral in rectangular form
Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

atzon, moss, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atzon
tzon(tli), hair, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli
-pa, toward, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pa-0
-pana(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
xicalcoliuhqui, step-fret coil, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xicalcoliuhqui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Arriba del Agua (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

The Codex Chavero of Huexotzinco (or Códice Chavero de Huexotzinco), https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_03246_001/?sp=10&st=image

Image Source, Rights: 

The Codex Chavero of Huexotzinco (or Códice Chavero de Huexotzinco) is held by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México. It is published online by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”

Orthography: 
"b" for p or f