This glyph type has several 'subspecies'. Fundamentally, though, we see a standing figure with oval top and below that what looks as if a rhomb had been swallowed. Examples (Aa2-32 and Aa6-32):
In the unusual Ab8-80 the top oval is a separate part balancing on the bottom part, but the tendency to thinner 'waist' is seen in other glyphs too, e.g. in Aa7-2 and Aa7-39:
Sometimes an 'eye' is attatched to the 'swollen rhomb', e.g. Aa2-16 and Aa2-57:
Two 'eyes' also occur (Ab3-56 and Aa6-34):
The 'swollen rhomb' may have other shapes (Ab1-16 and Ab4-60):
The top oval may have 'feathers', e.g. in Aa5-78:
Often, then, the 'swollen rhomb' has engendered 'limbs', as in Aa7-65 and Aa4-45:
But there are cases where the 'swollen rhomb' seems to have disappeared without trace, as can be seen in Aa5-35:
The two strange glyphs Ab8-17 and Ab8-18, on the other hand, clearly belong to GD28:
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