Ayapan (MH745r)

Ayapan (MH745r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or place of origin, Ayapan (perhaps “Thin Cotton Cloak”), is attested here as pertaining to a man. It is a rectangular, vertical flag (pamitl) on a post. On its lower half, the banner has a mesh, which suggests it is a piece of fabric called ayatl, which has a loose weave of natural fiber. The top half of the banner has three little streams of water (atl), which is a phonetic indicator that this probable place name (identifying the ethnicity of the man) starts with A-.

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 well 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: 

ayapa

Gloss Normalization: 

Ayapan

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
phonetic possibilities
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flags, banners
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Names (places)
Race, Ethnicity, Identity, Othering
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
border (red, plain, or patterned)
checked, cross-hatched, or mesh
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
rectangular
shimmer, vibrance, shine with warmth & movement
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
downward
Keywords: 

banderas, capas, telas, textiles, agua, ayates, nombres de hombres

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

aya(tl), cloak, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayatl
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
pamitl, flag or banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pamitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Bandera de Algodón

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 745r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=568&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: 
"v" for b
dropped "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Ayapan (MH569r)

Ayapan (MH530v)

Ayapan (MH535v)