apantli (Mdz39r)

This apantli element (logogram) cannot be carved easily from the compound sign for the place name, Acocozpan. But, we include it here independently to representing the noun apantli, water channel or canal, which is an important element in the construction of the compound glyph. It has most of the hallmarks of a typical apantli, except the color of the water is yellow (significant in the place name that the original, compound glyph was trying to convey). The canal is shown in a cross-section view, and it has a trapezoidal shape that is more suggestive of construction than a natural shape. The water has wavy horizontal lines, some of them thick and black, and white water droplets/beads and white turbinate shells splash off the top of the water. The channel has an encasement (a red layer closest to the water, and an outer yellow layer).