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 "Thin Cotton 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. If Ayapan is not literally about a cotton flag, perhaps it refers to a perennial plant, so this could be the meaning of the name, and if so, the compound would be fully phonographic.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Syntax: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
Keywords: 

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

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 
Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Bandera de Algodón

Image Source: 
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).

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