Acolman (Azca24)
This painted black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Acolman (perhaps “Place at the Curve of the Lakeshore” or “Place at the Bend in the River”) shows a arm (standing for shoulder, acolli) with a hand (maitl), all painted a flesh tone. Below these bits of anatomy, which serve as phonetic indicators for a bend in the water and the -man locative suffix, is a horizontal flow of water (atl), which provides a phonetic complement upholding that the town name starts with A-, and a semantic support that this is about a landscape featuring a body of water (such as a river or a lake). The water of the compound glyph involves four short streams, left white or natural, and each one has a yellow droplet or shell at the tip of the descending streams.
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As the contextualizing image shows, dotted lines connect the shoulder to the building above it. See another example of a compound glyph for Acolman, below. It has a more traditional color for water and more details of the anatomical features of the shoulder.
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acolman
Acolman
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post-1550, possibly from the early seventeenth century.
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agua, lagos, ríos, curvas, anatomía, paisaje, pueblos, socio-political units, topónimos, nombres de lugares
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
acol(li), shoulder, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acolli
coltic, curved, bent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coltic
mai(tl), hand or arm, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maitl
-mān (locative suffix), place, where there is/ are, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/conetnt/man
māni, to extend or to be located, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mani
-mani, to be in the manner of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mani-1
Lugar con la Curva en el Lago, o Lugar con la Curva en el Río
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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=24&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.
