The 'bent feathered bough' sometimes has signs at the bottom end, as in Ab2-10 and Ab2-14:
Sometimes there are signs at the other (top) end, e.g. in Aa2-55 and Aa5-47:
There exists a variant of GD19 where the bough has become a circle, and I therefore have classified these two glyphs as GD19 (Aa4-13 and Ab1-15):
Possibly also these three glyphs (Aa5-50, Aa7-38 and Aa7-59) have 'heads' drawn as that sort of GD19 variant:
Less obvious are these two glyphs (Aa4-58 and Aa4-60):
But I guess they too may allude to the circular variant of GD19. Often GD18 is associated with GD19. Clearly this is the case in Ab8-45:
Therefore I have classified also these glyphs as having signs of GD19 (Ab4-16 and Ab3-56):
If the first two glyphs shows GD19, then probably also the third and last one does. Both have 'feathers' only on one of the sides of the protruding 'appendix'. That is a characteristic feature of all GD19 glyphs. (When the 'feathers' are located on both sides I have classified the glyph as GD28.) Therefore I have also classified these glyphs (Ab4-12, Ab6-15--17 and Ab6-23) as GD19 - they show similar signs:
However, when the 'feathers' occur on the 'head' of 'persons' I do not consider that a case of belonging to GD19. Often we find such 'head feathers' in GD63 glyphs, e.g. Ab8-6:
A hyperlink leads from GD19 to GD63. Another link leads to GD82:
Aruku Kurenga (B) Here we find several examples of the closed oval type, e.g. Ba2-2 and Ba2-31:
The inner oval may have signs, too, as seen in. Bb12-16 (egg-formed) and Bb12-19 (zero-formed):
In Bb2-19 the 'tip' is missing:
Mamari (C) Ca6-7--9 are classified as GD19 (in addition to GD52) following decisions taken earlier above:
Échancrée (D) Db2-111 has the oval variant combined with an arm (GD35):
Keiti (E) Only one example of GD29 is found and that one is forcing me to make an exception, viz. Eb6-12:
The reason is that quite obviously it belongs to GD29, yet I have decided to define as GD28 glyphs with feathers' on both sides, e.g. the left part of Ca10--15:
I have not classified Eb6-12 as GD28.
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. |
