Ayapan (MH569r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or place of origin, Ayapan ("On the Cloak," attested here as a man’s name), shows an upright cloth (ayatl) banner (panitl) facing toward the viewer's right. The cloth has a perimeter with hash marks, and the main area has vertical black lines creating the effect of stripes.
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Usually, someone from Ayapan would be referred to as an Ayapanecatl. Perhaps this name is simply apocopated. Alternatively, Ayapan is the name of a perennial plant, and so that might be the real meaning of the name. If so, then the parts of the compound are entirely phonetic indicators.
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filipe ayapā
Felipe Ayapan
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1560
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flags, banners, banderas, textiles, telas, capas, capes, capas, mantas
aya(tl), a thin cloak, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayatl
pan(itl), flag/banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl
-pan, in or on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan
La Bandera de Tela
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 569r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=217&st=image.
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