Acol (MH634v)

This black-line drawing of the compound Nahuatl hieroglyph 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 shoulder is not there to say, literally, that a human body part is a feature of the personal name. The water has a swirling center with four short streams radiating out from the center. The streams here end in the usual droplets (sometimes seen as green stones), but no obvious turbinate shells.