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Immediately after our overview of the G text this is the right time to look at it from the side, which is possible because the K tablet has a text which in a way corresponds to the front side of the G text.

The K tablet is smaller than the G tablet and it has only 5 glyph lines on each side. Notably side b starts not at the left but at the right bottom corner. This is probably a consequence of the odd number of glyph lines on side a, because the 'return voyage' in the 3rd pair of lines has to be the first line on side b. Instead of the 8 pairs of lines on the G tablet there are only 5 pairs on the K tablet.

Number of glyphs on the K tablet:
side a side b
a1 19 *5 24 24 b1 20 *2 22 119
a2 22 - 22 46 b2 17 *1 18 137
a3 21 - 21 67 b3 16 - 16 153
a4 16 - 16 83 b4 19 - 19 172
a5 14 - 14 97 b5 17 *3 20 192
sum 92 *5 97 sum 89 *6 95
Numbers with asterisk (*) refer to possible glyph positions where no glyph is visible.

Barthel's pictures of the London Tablet (K):