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GD52

The glyphs in GD52 are easy to recognize. Mostly we see what looks like a gesture of eating, as in Ab1-48:

Though the orientation of the 'head' is often as if looking at zenith, e.g. in Ab1-59:

The 'mouth' may be enormous, e.g. as in Ab1-47 (left below), and perhaps we then have an allusion to GD26 (right):

  

GD26 has no arm, otherwise there is not much difference between these two glyphs and a hyperlink leads from GD52 to GD26.

The 'eating' gesture, expressed as an arm ending with an inwards oriented hand (three fingers only), is a characteristic of the normal GD52 glyphs. Therefore, presumably, glyphs of other kinds which incorporate this sign allude to GD52. I have classified some such glyph also as GD52. Examples: Aa1-22 (GD12 + GD32) and Aa2-25 (GD17):

  

On the other hand, GD52 glyphs may have other 'arm-and-hand' signs, e.g. Aa1-65, Aa1-67, Aa1-74, Aa2-61, Aa4-27 and Ab1-34:

              

The 'leg-and-foot' is mostly as seen in the examples so far, but the 'toes' may be missing, e.g. Aa7-22, Aa2-80 and Aa3-12:

     

Furthermore, due to the sitting posture I have also classified some odd glyphs as GD52, viz. Aa2-42, Aa6-39, Aa6-40, Aa6-49, Aa6-52, Aa6-62, Aa6-84, Aa7-1 and Aa7-6:

           

There are a few composite odd glyphs, which I have classified as GD51, viz. Aa1-80, Ab3-66, Ab4-12 and Ab6-23:

        

The 'gesture of eating' often appears in other GD:s and I have not registered all glyphs with this characteristic as also GD52. Instead there are hyperlinks to those GD which frequently incorporate the 'gesture of eating'. Hyperlinks leads to GD15, GD26, GD29, GD35, GD42, GD62, GD74 and GD114:

             

 

Aruku Kurenga (B)

Figures with protuberances at the back are seen in Ba5-22, Ba10-27, Bb11-1 and Bb11-31:

        

Some of the marginal odd glyphs classified as GD52 are Ba3-1, Ba7-19, Bb2-8, Bb2-10, Bb2-36 and Bb6-17:

              

In Bb11-41 the double oval defined by straight line, arm and leg unmistakenly alludes to GD52:

However, this and other similar GD56 glyphs are not registered here. Neither is there a hyperlink leading to GD56.

 

Mamari (C)

'Twins' sitting back to back appear in Ca5-18--19 and Ca8-28--29:

  

Strange are Ca10-1--2 together with Ca10-4 and Ca10-7:

     

 

Échancrée (D)

Da5-109 is unusual in having GD37 at left instead of the normal right position:

 

Keiti (E)

Eb5-21 is curious:

 

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.