Xochipan (MH518v)

Xochipan (MH518v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the personal name or ethnic/pueblo affiliation, Xochipan ("In the Flowers"), which is attested here as pertaining to a man, shows three vertical flowers (xochitl) contained within the rectangle of an upright banner (panitl). The three flowers are painted yellow. They are all the same, having a tripartite petal arrangement. The flag faces toward the viewer's right.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

antonio xochipā

Gloss Normalization: 

Antonio Xochipan

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flags, banners
Flowers
Gender (male)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
rectangular
tripartite
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
outward (from inside out)
Keywords: 

flowers, flores, flags, banners, banderas

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

xoch(itl), flowers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
pan(itl), banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl
-pan (locative suffix), on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 518v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=116&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).

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