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GD85

The twin heads oriented towards each other is one characteristic of GD85. Another is the bottom part, which may illustrate some kind of crustacean, as for instance in the right part of Aa6-7:

But the number of limbs is rather small for that.

In Ab8-84 (the last glyph on side b) there are also just four 'legs':

In Ab6-84 we can see only one pair of 'legs' - the bottom pair is only hinted at (as in the standard for GD85):

A hyperlink leads from GD85 to GD65 because there too we have twin heads:

However, the bottom part is no 'crustacean'. When GD65 was defined I referred glyphs with a bottom part 'like an insect or lobster' to GD85.

In GD65 are found glyphs which neither look 'human' nor 'lobsterlike' at the bottom, e.g. Aab7-54 (GD69), Ab3-76 (GD75) and Ab5-71 (also classified as GD76):

     

Two more hyperlinks lead to GD61 respectively to GD68, where other glyphs somewhat similar to GD85 appear:

  

 

Aruku Kurenga (B)

Ba8-9 and Ba8-29 have fat bodies with threadlike legs:

  

The body form in Ba7-1 is an elongated oval and the legs are of quite another type:

 

Mamari (C)

The same type of legs is seen in Ca2-10 and Ca2-12

  

 

Échancrée (D)

No glyphs are found.

 

Keiti (E)

Ea6-20 has a body fused with both the clawlike 'heads' and with the bottom 'legs':

Ea9-9 looks as a simplified variant:

 

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.