Teapan (MH908r)

Teapan (MH908r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the place name Teapan (perhaps “Stone in the Water”) shows a swirling body of water (atl) with a few lines running perpendicular to the main flow. The water has thick and thin lines of current (movement). Coming out above and below this swirling water are the two curly ends of a stone. Each of these is half light and half dark, separated on a diagonal, mimicking the traditional sign for stone as much as possible, given that the middle of the stone is immersed.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

In the narrative of the Spanish invasion of Mexico, Bernal Díaz del Castillo mentions people from the Teapan townships paddling canoes laden with provisions. (See: Chapter 175.)

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

teapan

Gloss Normalization: 

Teapan

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: 
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Landscape Features
Movement
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inward (from outside in)
Keywords: 

piedras, agua, nombres de lugares

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

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
apan(tli), river, water ditch, canal, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/apantli
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
-pan (locative suffix), in or on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Piedra en el Agua

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 908r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=886&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: