atl (Mdz47r)

This example of atl (water) is iconographic, not from a glyph. But this fact is not obvious, as the visual does not deviate from many known examples of water that are part of glyphs. The water here is largely horizontal, has black lines of current, and is painted turquoise. It was originally placed on top of a piece of ambar, and it was spilling off the right end. It has white droplets (reminiscent of the drops at the end of the rain, quiyahuitl, see below, right) or jade beads and a turbinate shell (resembling a cuechtli, see below, right) splashing off the stream, so typical of water.