Huepan (MH651v)

Huepan (MH651v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Huepan (perhaps "He Dragged Wood") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows a horizontal wooden beam with a hole in the right end and a rope attached to the hole with the purpose of dragging the beam. The name Huepan comes from the verb huepana, to drag wood. A person's head overlaps with the spot on the beam where the cord goes through the hole. The head is difficult to make out, but it may be an elder (huehue), included as a phonetic complement for the start of the name, Hue-.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

There was a Huepan who was a noble of Tlaxcala who was alive at the time of the Spanish invasion; perhaps this man is named after him. [See: Luis Reyes García, La escritura pictográfica en Tlaxcala (1993), 137.]

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: 
verb
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Labor Issues
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
horizontal
pointed (see also spiky)
profile view
rectangular
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

madera, arrastrar, nombres de hombres famosos, nombres de hombres

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

huepana, to drag wood, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huepana
tlaca(tl), a person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacatl
huilana, to drag wood, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huilana
huehue, an elder, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huehue

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Arrastra Vigas (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 651v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=385&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).

Orthography: 
dropped "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tlacahuepan (MH650r)

Huepan (MH506r)

huilana (MH558v)

Tlahuilan (MH513r)

Tlaximal (MH857v)

Huepan (MH905v)