Huepan (MH506r)

Huepan (MH506r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Huepan (perhaps "He Dragged Wood" or "A Rough Beam of Wood") is attested here as pertaining to a man. The glyph includes an upright narrow, rectangular banner (panitl) on a stick. Below that, and still touching the handle, is a partial, wrinkled face of an older man (huehue). The face is shown in profile view, facing toward the viewer's right. The banner is also flying toward the right.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

A huepantli is a rough beam (in need of refinement) that was used in construction. This could be the original referent for the name as given in the gloss, but it does not match the visuals of the glyph, which are fully phonographic here. There was a famous Huepantzin in the Tlaxcala area at the time of the Spanish invasion of Mexico. (See Luis Reyes García, La Escritura pictográfica en Tlaxcala, 1993, 137.) Perhaps some boys were named after this figure in history. Other examples of the hieroglyph for Huepan (e.g., MH651v and MH904v) appear in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

diego
huepā

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Huepan

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
pa/pan/pal syllable from panitl
verb
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flags, banners
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

flags, banners, banderas, viejos, elders, nombres de hombres

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

huepan(tli), large rough-hewn wooden beam, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huepantli
huepana, to drag a beam of wood, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huepana
huehue, elder, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huehue
pan(itl), banner, flag, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

La Viga(?)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 506r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=91&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: 

Huepan (MH651v)

huehue (Mdz42r)

huehue (Mdz13v)

panitl (Mdz20r)

Tlacahuepan (MH650r)

Huepan (MH905v)