Ayapan (MH535v)
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.
Stephanie Wood
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.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
fabrics, telas, textiles, flags, banners, banderas, flores, nombres de hombres
aya(tl), cloak, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayatl
pam(itl), flag, banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pamitl
Bandera de Algodón
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 535v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=150&st=image
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