Oyacatlan (MH814r)

Oyacatlan (MH814r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Oyacatlan (as yet undeciphered) is attested here as a place name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a plant with a fan-shaped array of three bamboo-like canes or reeds (acatl) with five interspersed upright leaves. Below the plant is what appears to be a nose ornament (yacametztli), in the place where roots are often visible.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See the dictionary field for potential ideas for analyzing the meaning of this glyph, which has yet to be deciphered or translated. This town is currently called San Andrés Hueyacatitlan. It is in the state of Puebla, north and a bit west of Huejotzingo. [See: the Facebook page of neighboring San Salvador El Verde, which says the old “Oyacatitlan” is now San Andrés Hueyacatitlan, and its feast day is November 30th.

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:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Names (places)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

spiky

vertical, upright

curving, curvy, curved

Keywords:

plantas, cañas, carrizo, nariz, narices, narigueras, nombres de lugares, toponimos

Museum & Rare Book Comparisons:

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

oya, to shell dried kernels from maize cobs, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/oya
yaca(tl), nose, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yacatl
yacametz(tli), a nose ornament, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yacametztli
aca(tl), reed or cane, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acatl
-tlan (locative suffix), near, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 814r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=702&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:

intrusive "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: