Huitzitzilapan (Osu35r)

Huitzitzilapan (Osu35r)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This painted compound Nahuatl hieroglyph represents the place name Huitzitzilapan ("On Hummingbird Lake" or "Hummingbird Canal"). It features the head of a brownish hummingbird (huitzilin) with a long golden beak, shown in profile. Its beak nearly touches a splash of water (atl) that is topped by a white drop or a bead. This splash comes from a canal (apantli) with a golden frame on the bottom and the sides. The water is shallow compared to most canals in this collection. The water has one horizontal line of current (movement), and there is a tiny line of current in the splash.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Other examples of glyphs for Huitzitzilapan include whole hummingbirds, not just the head. But they all have a canal (apantli) which may push the translation toward Hummingbird Canal.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

huitzitzilapan

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Huitzitzilapan

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Osuna, Codex (Osu)

Date of Manuscript:

1551–1565

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

visual movement

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing left

pointed (see also spiky)

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

front to back

Keywords:

birds, hummingbirds, water, agua, pájaros, colibríes, nombres de lugares, ave, aves, pájaro, pájaros, pluma, plumas, animals, animales, topónimos, place names

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

huitzil(in), hummingbird, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitzilin
apan(tli), canal or waterway, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/apantli
-pan (locative suffix), in or on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, En el Lago del Colibrí, o El Canal del Colibrí

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Library of Congress Online Catalog and the World Digital Library, Osuna Codex, or Painting of the Governor, Mayors, and Rulers of Mexico, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_07324/. The original is located in the Biblioteca Nacional de España.

Image Source, Rights:

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