Ayapan (MH535v)

Ayapan (MH535v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing (with small spots of red paint) of the compound glyph for the personal name or place of origin, Ayapan (perhaps "Cloth Flag," attested here as a man’s name), shows a flag (pamitl or panitl) flying out to the viewer's right. It is on a possibly wooden pole, and there is an adornment at the top of the pole. The flag has a border around three sides of the rectangle, seemingly with a flower design, and a white stripe with occasional red dots outside the flower design.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Ayapan was a fairly common name. Four other glyphs for this personal name appear below. It could be a place of origin. A place named Ayapan exists in the state of Tabasco, Mexico (see: Daniel Suslak, “Ayapan Echoes,” American Anthropologist, Nov. 2011), and there may well be others. If Ayapan is not literally about a cotton flag, perhaps it refers to the medicinal plant, ayapana. If this could be the root of the name, the compound would be fully phonographic.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text 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)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flags, banners
Flowers
Foreigners/Others
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Race, Ethnicity, Identity, Othering
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
red
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
rectangular
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

fabrics, telas, textiles, flags, banners, banderas, flores, nombres de hombres

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

aya(tl), a thin cloak or blanket, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayatl
pam(itl), flag, banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pamitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Bandera de Ayate

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 535v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=150&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 (MH569r)

Ayapan (MH530v)

Ayapan (MH679r)

Patzayatl (MH485v)

Quetzalayatl (MH513r)

Ayapan (MH871v)

Ayapan (MH895r)

Huanitl (FCbk8f4v)