Aten (MH568v)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Aten (“Water-Edge,” or maybe "Lakeshore," attested here as a man’s name) builds on the portrait of the tribute payer, adding a flow of water (atl)] under his chin and lips (tentli). The water has lines of current (movement), including one little swirl, and it throws off two little streams with droplets at the tips.
Stephanie Wood
juā aten
Juan Aten
Stephanie Wood
1560
Stephanie Wood
water, agua, lips, labios, edge, orilla, shore
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
ten(tli), lip, edge, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tentli
La Orilla del Agua
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 568v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=216&st=image.
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