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GD51

Two glyphs are easily classified as GD51, viz. Ab6-51 and Ab6-53:

  

Indeed, Ab6-53 is the glyph which once was selected by me as the 'prototype' for GD51.

The 'bulb' at bottom may be even more rounded, as seen at right in Ab6-31 (not far ahead of Ab6-51 and Ab6-53):

A little 'nipple' may be found at the bottom end, as in Aa2-7 and Aa4-78:

  

Often there are marks on one or both sides, Aa4-26, Aa4-63 and Aa6-14:

     

GD51 may depict a hanging fruit or similar and to show the hanging characteristic it is natural to draw an arm which lifts the 'fruit' to let it hang down. I decided to have these kinds of glyphs classified as GD72 and therefore a hyperlink leads from GD51 to GD72 (and the other way around). Examples of GD72 are Ab7-12, Aa6-11 and Aa4-73

     

Aa6-43 presumably exhibits two GD51 signs, one at the end of the arm and one at the end of the leg:

Given that, it becomes reasonable to also accept Aa3-58 and similar glyphs with the sign of GD51 at the end of a leg:

On the other hand, I have decided to avoid classifying as GD51 glyphs which have a bulb-like bottom end (although it is quite possible that they allude to GD51). One example which according to this rule not is classified as GD51 is Aa3-69:

We can easily recognize the headgear typical of GD63, and I have therefore not classified the glyph as GD51 (nor as GD17), although it has a rounded bottom end. If I had not chosen to disregard rounded bottom ends at GD51, then all glyphs in GD17 would also have been registered here.

However, when the figure depicted with rounded bottom is not a 'person' (in a wide meaning) - as for instance in Aa6-14 (see earlier above) - I have classified the glyph as GD51. More examples are Aa5-28 (GD11), Ab8-56 (GD32) and Aa6-10 (GD46):

     

In GD22 we sometimes find glyphs with a rounded bottom end, as in Aa2-4, Ab2-9 and Ab7-66:

     

Instead of listing these also here at GD51 I have inserted a hyperlink from GD51 to GD22. There is a link to GD17 too of course.

 

Aruku Kurenga (B)

Several instances of a leg with a 'bulb' occur, e.g. Ba3-7, Ba3-12 and Bb3-36:

     

In  Bb5-20 and Bb5-22 the swelling leg takes on a more accentuated look:

  

It seems as if the leg which is swollen always is the left one (right from us seen).

Ba1-44, Ba9-49 and Bb2-43 are borderline cases which also are registered as GD72:

     

(Though of course Ba9-42 has a bulbous leg too.)

While Bb11-21 and Bb7-20 represent clear cases of GD51 Ba5-21 is curious - and also classified as GD47:

     

 

Mamari (C)

With the exception of the left part of Ca2-18 there are no GD51 of the kind we have seen above earlier:

Though I have classified as GD51 these glyphs (Cb9-12, Cb3-17 and Cb3-19):

     

The idea of hanging fruits is unavoidable.

 

Échancrée (D)

Only one example is found, the bulbous leg in Da2-106:

 

Keiti (E)

Ea7-21--22 are combinations with GD49:

 

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.