Ayoten (MH613r)

Ayoten (MH613r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Ayoten ("Short Tree with Red Leaves") is attested here as a man's name. It is a fully phonographic compound, with a turtle (ayotl) next to a man's lips (tentli), meant to refer to a type of tree. It is a bird's eye view of the turtle, whose head is on the viewer's right. Its back is textured, and its front legs are extended.

Description, 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 dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Health, Medicine
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
profile view
bird's eye view
facing right
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
right to left
Keywords: 

turtles, squash, calabazas, tortugas, fonetismo, árboles, hojas rojas, nombres de hombres

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

ayoten(tli), a little red tree, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayotentli
ayo(tl), turtle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayotl
ten(tli), lip, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tentli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

(un árbol corto con hojas rojas)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 613r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=308st=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: 

ayotl (Mdz46r)

ayotl (Mdz47r)