Cuapayan (MH732r)

Cuapayan (MH732r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name, Cuapayan ("He Broke Heads"), is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows the head (cuaitl) of a man in profile, facing toward the viewer's left. He has long, unruly hair. Some short hairs stick straight up above his head, too. The head seems to be a phonetic indicator for the start of the name (Cua-). The -payan (broken) part of the name might be semantically indicated by the hair.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pascual cuapaya.

Gloss Normalization: 

Pascual Cuapayan

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
Syntax: 
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Hair (human or animal)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
War or Conflict
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
profile view
Keywords: 

cabezas, quebrar, nombres de hombres

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

cuapayana, to break things, such as hard soil, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuapayana
payana, to break things, such as dirt clods, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/payana
cua-, having to do with human heads, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cua-0
cua(itl), the human head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuaitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Quebró Cabezas

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 732r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=542&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: 

Cuapolol (MH521v)

Cuachil (MH517v)