Ayapan (MH530v)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or place of origin, Ayapan (perhaps "Maguey Cloth Flag," 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). But, at minimum, the water is a phonetic indicator that this name begins with "A-." 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. Perhaps the waterway is an apantli, perhaps also providing a phonetic indicator for the -pan part of the name.