Ayapan (MH894v)

Ayapan (MH894v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ayapan (perhaps “Thin Cotton Flag”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a spindle, which may be a semantic indicator for textiles, such as ayatl (a thin cloak or blanket). To the left of the spindle is an upright flag (panitl or pamitl). The flag could be a phonetic indicator for the locative suffix -pan (on or in), but that is not typical for personal names. It is found more often in place names.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Ayapan was a fairly common name. Some 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. If so, this could be the root of the name, and the compound would be fully phonographic.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

po. ayapā

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Ayapan

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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: 
line connecting elements
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: 
pointed (see also spiky)
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
right to left
Keywords: 

telas, textiles, ayates, banderas, nombres de hombres

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

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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Bandera de Ayate

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 894v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=861&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 (MH535v)

Ayapan (MH745r)

Ayapan (MH679r)

Ayapan (MH871v)