Ayapan (MH679r)

Ayapan (MH679r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Ayapan (“Thin Cotton Flag”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a flag or banner (pamitl) made from a loosely woven, thin cotton blanket or cloak (ayatl). It is rectangular and attached to a stick. The flag flies toward the viewer’s right. The flag’s weave is very apparent, and it has a border of small squares. Another example of an ayatl appears below in the glyph Xiccayatl, which also shows an open weave.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Ayapan was a fairly common name. Other glyphs for this personal name appear below. It could be a place of origin. 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: 
Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic possibilities
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flags, banners
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
hash marks (maize connection)
profile view
rectangular
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

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

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

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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Bandera de Algodón

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 679r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=438&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 (MH535v)

Xiccayatl (MH809r)