Acocolco (Azca16)
This painted line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Acocolco (“On the Twisting River”) shows a landscape crossed by an undulating river (atl). The landscape is full of people involved in battles amidst reeds (acatl), which themselves suggest a damp area. Glosses state that these are Mexica, Colhuaque, Tepaneca, etc., in battle. Obsidian-studded wooden clubs (surely, macuahuitl) and shields (surely, chimalli) abound.
Stephanie Wood
Another glyph for Acocolco (also sometimes called Acolco, Aculco, Ocolco) appears below. The emphasis on that one is the twisting river. Here, the curvy river is shown, but the landscape through which the river flows plays a larger role.
Stephanie Wood
Acocolco
Acocolco
Stephanie Wood
post-1550, possibly from the early seventeenth century.
Jeff Haskett-Wood
agua, ríos, cañas, batallas, nombres de lugares, topónimos, pueblos
"On the Twisting River" (suggested by Berdan and Anawalt, and supported by Frances Karttunen. [Frances Karttunen, unpublished manuscript, used here with her permission.]
"Junto al Río Sinuoso," or "Junto al Río Que Se Dobla"
Stephanie Wood
The Codex Azcatitlan is also known as the Histoire mexicaine, [Manuscrit] Mexicain 59–64. It is housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and hosted on line 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.”
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=16&st=image
The Library of Congress is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.” But please cite Bibliothèque Nationale de France and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.
