Atenco (MH731v)

Atenco (MH731v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name,
Atenco (“Water’s Edge”). It shows a man’s head in profile, looking toward the viewer’s left. His lower lip (tentli) is merged with a flow of water (atl) going toward the viewer’s right. This rendition of the water is especially well presented, with both two eddies, one swirling around and the other with a rectangular swirl. The turbinate shells and droplets (or, here, clam shells) are also carefully detailed. The man’s lips provide the phonetic indicator for -ten-, the edge or the shore. The -co (locative suffix) is not shown visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Sancta + atenco

Gloss Normalization: 

Santa Cruz Atenco

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: 
phonetic dimensions
place name
Syntax: 
locative (not visual)
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (places)
Shells
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
cross (+)
facing left
profile view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
spiral as rectangular
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

agua, labios, borde, orilla, nombres de lugares

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

a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
ten(tli), lip or edge, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tentli
-co (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

En la Orilla del Agua

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 731v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=541&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: 
intrusive "c"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Atenco (Mdz51r)

Atenco (Mdz27r)

Atenco (Chav17)