Nepancauh (MH665r)

Nepancauh (MH665r)

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Nepancauh (perhaps “Mutually Abandoned” or "Relinquished Reciprocally") is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows two vertical objects like brakets, curving away from one another in a reciprocal (nepan-) fashion. In between these two objects is a nenetl figurine (doll or deity sculpture), which provides the phonetic complement (Ne-) for the start of Nepan-.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Given that nenetl can also refer to women’s genitals, the brackets might also be imagined to be stylized labia. The glyph is also reminiscent of the unique representation of Quetzalcoatl on folio 643 verso. Finally, the bracketing objects recall some views of the ball court (see folio 501v, below).

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
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
adverb
noun(s)
verb
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Family, Kinship, even Friendship
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Sports, Games, Leisure
Toys
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
vertical, upright
frontal view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
outward (from inside out)
Keywords: 

separación, mutuo, recíproco, abandonar, renunciar, muñeca, escultura, fuerzas divinas, nombres de hombres

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

nepan-, reciprocally, mutually, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nepan
cahua, to leave, abandon, relinquish, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cahua

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Dejado Mutuamente

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 665r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=410&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: 

Quetzalcoatl (MH643v)

tlachtli (MH501v)