Xochipepenatl (MH640r)

Xochipepenatl (MH640r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name (or perhaps occupation) Xochipepenatl ("Flower Selector") shows two flowers (xochitl), one being held in a (right) hand--suggestive of choosing, from pepena, to choose or select--and the other upside-down. Each flower has three visible petals and one has a similar tripartite sepal.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The "pepe" reduplication in the verb pepena (here turned into a noun with the added absolutive suffix) seems to be reflected in the presence of two flowers, what we are calling "visual reduplication." Having a plurality of flowers also makes sense when thinking of the process of selecting flowers.

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: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
reduplication (visual)
verb
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Flowers
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing downward
facing right
facing upward
profile view
tripartite
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Keywords: 

flores, flores

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

xochi(tl), flowers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
pepena, to select, to choose, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pepena

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Seleccionador de Flores

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 640r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=362st=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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