Ayapan (MH530v)

Ayapan (MH530v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or place of origin, Ayapan (perhaps "On the Cloak," attested here as a man’s name), shows a frontal view of a rectangular cloth (ayatl) with a segmented border around it. The cloth is undecorated inside the border and just left natural (not painted) by the author/artist. Underneath the cloth is a flow of water, perhaps a waterway (apantli). The water flows from the left (where there is a whirlpool or natural spring) toward the viewer's right. The three little streams have wavy lines of current (movement) and droplets/beads or shells at the tips of each stream.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The water is a phonetic indicator that this name begins with "A-." Usually, someone from Ayapan would be referred to as an Ayapanecatl. Perhaps this name is simply apocopated. Alternatively, Ayapan is the name of a perennial plant, and so that might be the real meaning of the name, and the elements of the compound are fully phonographic.

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic possibilities
Syntax: 
noun(s)
visible movement
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Foreigners/Others
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

water, agua, fabric, tela, cotton, algodón, cloaks, mantas

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

aya(tl), cotton cloak or fabric, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayatl
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
apan(tli), waterway, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/apantli

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 530v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=140&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: 

Ayapan (MH535v)

Ayapan (MH569r)