Mayan (MH794v)

Mayan (MH794v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Mayan (perhaps “He Was Hungry”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a profile view of the face of a man looking toward the viewer’s right. His mouth is large and open, suggesting he is hungry (mayana).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This is a somewhat unusual name, but there are other examples. We also have an example of the iconography of a famine, mayanalo.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

marthi mayā

Gloss Normalization: 

Martín Mayan

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
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Health, Medicine
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

comida, hambre, nombres de hombres

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

mayana, to be hungry, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mayana

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Tuvo Hambre

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 794v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=663&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: 
"g" for c, q, or x
"th" for t, d, or gd
dropped "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Mayan (MH674v)

Mayan (MH724v)

Mayan (MH827r)

mayanalo (TR32r)