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Keiti (E) has more tao glyphs than what would be expected, considering it is a fairly short text (628 = 200π glyphs). The following 8 + 8 = 16 are all those with tao 'uncontaminated' by other glyph types:

side a
Ea3-31 Ea3-32 Ea4-6 Ea7-3 Ea7-4 Ea7-5 Ea7-6
side b
Eb1-2 Eb5-1 Eb7-31 Eb8-7 Eb8-8 Eb8-11 Eb8-12

Ea7-4 is not a combination with another glyph type, there is no border line distinguishing the left from the right side - the two lines across are not borders but 'strings', similar to those across the neck at right in Aa1-11:

Aa1-11

Redmarked are twin glyphs (Ea3-31--32) and quartets (twins of twin glyphs). Or maybe the same quartet twice:

Ea6-39 Ea7-1 Ea7-2 Ea7-3 (220) Ea7-4 Ea7-5 Ea7-6
Eb8-6 Eb8-7 Eb8-8 Eb8-9 Eb8-10 Eb8-11 Eb8-12 (600)

Ordinal numbers are counted from Ea1-1. Possibly 220 at the pair Ea7-4--5 alludes to 11 * 20 (cfr Aa1-11).

Let us consider the variations in width. Eb1-2 certainly is somewhat broader than e.g. Ea3-31:

side a
Ea3-31 Ea3-32 Ea4-6 Ea7-3 Ea7-4 Ea7-5 Ea7-6
side b
Eb1-2 Eb5-1 Eb7-31 Eb8-7 Eb8-8 Eb8-11 Eb8-12

Maybe Eb1-2 stands at midsummer?

Ea9-25 Ea9-26 Ea9-27 Ea9-28 Ea9-29
Ea9-30 Ea9-31 Ea9-32 Ea9-33 Ea9-34
Ea9-35 Ea9-36 Eb1-1 Eb1-2 (328) Eb1-3
Eb1-4 Eb1-5 Eb1-6 Eb1-7 Eb1-8

Counted from Ea9-25 (the first of the 20 glyphs which - based on parallel texts e.g. in C - should be a point from which to begin) to tao in Eb1-2 it will be number 14.