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. If Ayapan is not literally about a cotton flag, perhaps it refers to a perennial plant, so this could be the meaning 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 fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flags, banners
Foreigners/Others
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
striped
right angle(s)
rectangular
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)