Xochipepena (MH489r)

Xochipepena (MH489r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xochipepena ("Chooses Flowers") is attested here as a man's name. It shows a flower (xochitl) with three petals and two anthers. Below this, a (right) hand is picking (choosing or gathering, pepena) the flower at its sepal.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The term pepena has work associations relating to harvesting and gleaning. It also applies to elections (choosing a leader). See our Online Nahuatl Dictionary for examples of the term's usage.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

antonio xochipepena

Gloss Normalization:

Antonio Xochipepena

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:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

verb

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Flowers

Gender (male)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

tripartite

vertical, upright

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

flowers, flores, choose, escoger

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
pepena, to choose or pick, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pepena

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 489r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=57&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: