Cuenpa (MH669r)

Cuenpa (MH669r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuenpa (“Toward the Furrows”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a bird’s eye view of a rectangle with four white horizontal stripes delineated with black lines. These stripes must be furrows (cuemitl). The -pa suffix (toward) is not shown visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This name is reminiscent of the term milpa (toward the small agricultural field, milli). It has both a similar construction and a similar meaning. Note how some glyphs or milli signs (below) have lines that suggest furrows.

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
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
striped
rectangular
bird's eye view
Keywords: 

parcelas, sementeras, agricultura, nombres de hombres

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

cuem(itl), land under cultivation, furrow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuemitl
-pa, toward, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pa-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Hacia los Surcos

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 669r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=418+
&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: 

milli (Mdz27r)

Millacatl (MH490r)

milli (TR41v)

Mimil (MH545r)

Xochimilco (MH650r)

Milpolco (T1735:2:109)