Acol (MH565v)

Acol (MH565v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or ethnicity, Acol (“Shoulder,” "River Bend." or "An Acolhua," attested here as a man’s name), shows a profile view of a right arm. At the top of the arm, at the site of the shoulder (acolli) is where some water (atl) emerges. The water has a circular center with six short streams radiating out from the center. The streams here do not end in the usual droplets (sometimes seen as green stones) or turbinate shells.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The water can provide a phonetic indicator for the word acolli (shoulder), or it could have a semantic role if "river bend" is meant.

Unlike the shoulders of the Codex Mendoza, in this glyph a bone is not protruding from the arm (at the site of the emerging water).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

antoo. acol

Gloss Normalization: 

Antonio Acol

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
phonetic dimensions
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
visible movement
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bent
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
facing right
profile view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

shoulders, hombros, water, agua

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

acol(li), shoulder, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acolli
coltic, bent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coltic
col(li), something bent, a bend, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/colli-1
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Hombro

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 565v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=210&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Acolhuacan (Mdz21v)

Coliman (Mdz38r)

Acolhua (MH595r)

Acol (MH554r)

Acol (MH634v)

Acol (MH833v)