Ayapan (MH569r)

Ayapan (MH569r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or place of origin, Ayapan ("Thin Cotton Flag," attested here as a man’s name), shows an upright cloth (ayatl) banner (pamitl or panitl) facing toward the viewer's right. The cloth has a perimeter with hash marks, and the main area has vertical black lines creating the effect of stripes.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Ayapan was a fairly common name. Four other glyphs for this personal name appear below. It could be a place of origin. A place named Ayapan exists in the state of Tabasco, Mexico (see: Daniel Suslak, “Ayapan Echoes,” American Anthropologist, Nov. 2011), and there may be others. If Ayapan is not literally about a cotton flag, perhaps it refers to the medicinal plant, ayapana, so this could be the root of the name, and if so, the compound would be fully phonographic.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

filipe ayapā

Gloss Normalization: 

Felipe Ayapan

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
phonetic dimensions
phonetic possibilities
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flags, banners
Foreigners/Others
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Race, Ethnicity, Identity, Othering
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
border (red, plain, or patterned)
rectangular
right angle(s)
striped
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

flags, banners, banderas, textiles, telas, capas, capes, capas, mantas, nombres de hombres

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

aya(tl), a thin cloak, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayatl
pan(itl), flag/banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl
-pan, in or on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Bandera de Algodón

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 569r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=217&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: 
See Also: 

Ayapan (MH530v)

Ayapan (MH535v)

Ayapan (MH679r)

Quetzalayatl (MH513r)

Patzayatl (MH485v)