Anahuacatl (MH526v)

Anahuacatl (MH526v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity Anahuacatl (“Person From Anahuac”) is attested here as pertaining to a man. Anahuac can refer to the central Mexican lakes (surrounding Mexico City) or the coastal areas. The glyph shows a curving stream of water, with smaller streams splashing off and droplets at the ends of these splashes. Black lines in the water also suggest current, movement.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This simplex glyph of water refers to being near (-nahuac-) the water (atl) which could be said of the capital city, Mexico Tenochtitlan, surrounded by lakes. So, someone from Anahuac was probably a Mexica, a Tenochca, or someone from another lakeshore community.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

juā.anahuacatl.

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Anahuacatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

preposition

visible movement

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

Keywords:

agua, junto, cerca, Mexico-Tenochtitlan, lagos, lakes, lakeside, Anahuac, etnicidades

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
-nahuac, near, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nahuac
-catl, person of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl
anahuac, next to the water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/anahuac

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

[Él es] de Anahuac (Cerca de los Lagos o la Costa)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 526v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=132&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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