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Glyphs which belong to GD17 are rather difficult to classify. First it should be noted that there are two variants which differ from each other by how the'wings' are written: either as part of the body shape (e.g. Ab1-68) or as if the 'wings' were 'glued' to the body (e.g. Aa2-65):

Though it may happen that the 'wings' are drawn across the body (Aa7-58):

In this example we should recognize a mixed glyph where the 'wing' shape is GD33.

Instead of 'wings' there may be 'legs', as in Aa8-59:

Other shapes can also take the place of a 'wing' (or 'leg'), for instance the beak of GD11 may be imagined in the right 'wing' of Aa8-65:

All four limbs can be missing (Ab5-63):

Or just the 'legs' (Aa3-67 and Ab7-7):

In one instance, Ab8-21 (a glyph which is mixed with the other part belonging to GD22), the 'arms' instead are missing:

Even viewed from an en face perspective both 'ears'/'eyes' can be missing (Aa8-43):

The shape of the head may vary, as in e.g. Ab5-33, Aa2-44 and Ab2-62:

As seen in Ab5-33 the rounded 'bottom' can carry signs in form of 'deformations'. Clearly that is the case also in Ab6-77 and Aa1-88:

A 'knob' is often found at the 'bottom' (Ab4-61, Aa5-49, Ab1-75):

The 'bottom' may have a 'hole' (Ab8-62, Aa6-77, Aa8-25):

Complex glyphs, with compositions including other GD:s are usual, e.g. Aa6-83, Aa7-69, Aa8-57, Aa8-60, Ab3-43 and Ab7-25:

Possibly in Aa4-13 there is a compound with GD12: The rounded bottom may here perhaps be understood as a 'sun disc', but that is irrelevant for the classification - the glyph should belong to GD17 anyhow. Compounds with GD63 are represented in Aa3-69, Aa6-69 and Aa7-13: E.g. Aa6-29 is listed only at GD22, although the bottom definitely has features showing GD17: Therefore a hyperlink leads from GD17 to GD22. For practical reasons also other hyperlinks lead away from GD17 to glyph other types which sometimes have a rounded bottom (e.g. GD63).

Peculiar is Aa4-11 (which arrives just before Aa4-13):

Aa8-73 is a glyph which may exemplify what I mean with 'rounded bottom':

This lean glyph does not have such a bottom, it belongs to GD69 (not to GD17).

 

Aruku Kurenga (B)

In Ba1-23 we can observe only part of the rounded bottom:

Interpreting the picture as somebody inside a kind of boat, I have found it necessary to also include Ba7-20 and Bb10-33:

  

In Ba8-38 we can see the whole rounded bottom, though it seems to be 'growing' from the 'boat', even more evident in Bb7-12:

   

A borderline case of rounded bottom, similar to Aa8-73 (see above), which I at last decided to include in GD17 (but not in GD69) is Bb7-22:

 

Mamari (C)

Here we find an example of what presumably is a separate variant of GD17 with short stubby wings and a bottom somewhat similar to Bb7-22 (see above), Ca6-15:

The proximity to Ca6-15 has convinced me to include also Ca6-13 as GD17:

Another curious variant of GD17 with a rounded 'body' appears in triplicate in Ca6-5 and also in Cb9-12:

  

Extraordinary is Ca9-17:

 

Échancrée (D)

Da4-110 gives an impression of being similar to GD74 glyphs, yet by definition it is excluded from GD74, because there 'the lower part of the body [is] seen sideways':

 

Keiti (E)

Several examples of the variant with short stubby wings are found in this text, e.g. Ea7-10, En7-20 and Eb7-34:

     

 

The rest of the texts

The texts above have been used as a kind of 'test ground' to see if the definitions could be used.

For the rest of the texts the same principles have been used, although less stringently. The experiences gained have been relied upon rather than what is written above about what characterizes the glyph type.

There may be a few extra glyph added, which would not have been so with a strict application of the written definitions. On the other hand there has been no attempt to ignore glyphs which according to the written definitions ought to belong to the glyph type.