Acol (MH565v)

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 in this place name is not a literal reference to a human shoulder, which gives this hieroglyph phonetic dimensions. 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.