Small Santiago (G) and London Tablet (K) start (at the beginning of side a) with the glyphs above. Now that we have aquainted ourselves with how the other parallel (yes, I believe so) texts are written, we can see similarities. The two glyphs at the beginning of K probably are of the same kind as those we can see at the end of the glyphs of E and C. And ragi (GD22) is found at the end of G and K, not at the beginning as in the other texts. Not only signs are located in different places in parallel texts, but also the glyphs. That is not strange, because also in a spoken language the same meaning may be conveyed with the same words ordered in different ways. And also different words may be used to convey the same message, which explains why these parallel texts have somewhat different glyphs. All this makes it difficult to ascertain whether two texts are parallel or not. If the texts are running parallel not just over a few glyphs but over longer sequences, then it becomes more clear if they are parallel or not. Also it is of great value to locate the structures of the texts. The texts above is a good example of both these guides. If the glyphs at the beginning of side a on a tablet have glyphs somewhat similar to those above, then probably we have a parallel text. |
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