Nauhpan (MH736v)

Nauhpan (MH736v)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or place of origin, Nauhpan (“On the Four”) is attested here as pertaining to a man. It shows four (nahui) short upright lines, and they are connected by a perpendicular line running across the bottom.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

There is a place named Nauhpan in the state of Puebla, in the region of Cuauhchinanco (today, Huauchinango). Thus, Nauhpan could be a place of origin and therefore a kind of ethnicity for the individual with this name.

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: 
numbers
personal name
Syntax: 
line connecting elements
locative (not visual)
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Numbers, Math
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
horizontal
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

números, lugares, barrios, pueblos, nombres de hombres

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

nahui, four, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nahui
-pan (locative suffix), on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

(una persona de Nauhpan, “en el cuatro”)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 736v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=551&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: 
dropped "uh"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Nauhyotl (MH485v)

Nauhtene (MH522v)

Nauhecatl (MH614r)

Nauhacatl (MH653r)