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. 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, so this could be the root of the name, and if so, the compound would be fully phonographic.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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 dimensions
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), cloak, 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 Algodón

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)