Chilpan (MH538r)

Chilpan (MH538r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Chilpan (“Wasp,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a chile pepper (chilli) and a upright, rectangular banner (panitl) on a stick.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

A chilpan is a wasp, which means that this compound involves two phonograms meant to lead the reader to the name Chilpan. The word chilpan also refers to a medicinal herb, which is another possibility for the reading of the name. But many names echo terms for insects, such as ants, bees, and grasshoppers. Chilpan could be a place of origin.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

petro. chilpan

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Chilpan

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood & Jeff Haskett-Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
homophony, rebus
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Flags, banners
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
pointed (see also spiky)
profile view
rectangular
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
right to left
Keywords: 

chiles, banderas, hierbas medicinales, avispas

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

chilpan, wasp or medicinal herb, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chilpan
chil(li), pepper, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chilli
pan(itl), flag, banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

La Avispa

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 538r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=155&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: 

chilli (Mdz37r)

panitl (Mdz20r)