Huepan (MH905v)

Huepan (MH905v)
Simplex 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 shows a vertical, rectangular beam of wood (huepantli) with a hole at the top. Out of this hole emerge two ropes that would be used to drag the wood (representing the verb huepana).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

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 this tribute payer was named for him.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pilipe huepā ycnoq~chtli

Gloss Normalization: 

Felipe Huepan, icnooquichtli

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: 
Aging (People, Animals, Things)
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Rope, cord, string, leather ties
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
rectangular
tied, bound, or bundled
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

madera, vigas, arrastrar, 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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Arrastró Madera, o Una Viga Rugosa

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 905v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=883&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).

Orthography: 
"i" for e
"p" or "ph" for f, p, or b
"y" for i
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Huepan (MH506r)

Huepan (MH651v)