Acol (MH554r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity, Acol (“Shoulder” or "An Acolhua" attested here as a man’s name), shows a right arm in profile, facing right. It goes from the upper arm down to the hand. The reference is to the shoulder (acolli), at the top of the arm, although no special attention is drawn--visually--to that part of the arm, except that it is severed there.
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This may be an abbreviation for the ethnicity, referring to the Acolhua people. Sometimes a protruding bone will draw attention to the shoulder in Nahua hieroglyphs, especially from an earlier time. See Codex Mendoza (c. 1541) examples, below. In an example from Matrícula de Huexotzinco, from 1560, no bone protrudes. This also appears below.
This may be an abbreviation for the ethnicity, referring to the Acolhua people. Sometimes a protruding bone will draw attention to the shoulder in Nahua hieroglyphs, especially from an earlier time. See Codex Mendoza (c. 1541) examples, below. In an example from Matrícula de Huexotzinco, from 1560, no bone protrudes. This also appears below.
Acol (and acolli) can be represented visually as water (atl) and a bend (colli), and so perhaps it relates to a bend in a river.
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pedro ancol
Pedro Acol
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1560
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shoulders, hombros, arms, brazos
acol(li), shoulder, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acolli
El Hombro
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 554r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=187&st=image.
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