Almoyahuacan (Chav8)

Almoyahuacan (Chav8)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This detail from a multicolored painting shows the compound glyph for the place name, Almoyahuacan.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Chavero, Codex (Chav)
Date of Manuscript: 

1578

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Syntax: 
verb
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Names (places)
Water
Colors: 
blue (turquoise)
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
frontal view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

moyahua, to disturb clear water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/moyahua-2
atl, water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
hua, singular possessor suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua
-can, place of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/can-2

Image Source: 

The Codex Chavero of Huexotzinco (or Códice Chavero de Huexotzinco), https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_03246_001/?sp=1

Image Source, Rights: 

The Codex Chavero of Huexotzinco (or Códice Chavero de Huexotzinco) is held by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México. It is published online by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”