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A STUDY OF THE MANUSCRIPT TROANO
case. Commencing with the upper extreme left-hand character, let us
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complete it (as the lower part—the loop—appears to be imperfect) thus:
This will make the whole character the same as the third and fourth to the right in the same line. The order in which they are to be taken I presume is as follows: First, the upper line over one figure, from left to right, then the next line below in the same order; next, the group over the next figure in the same way; and so on, counting the groups from left to right.
We observe that the lower left-hand character of the first or left-hand group is the head of a bird, and also that a bird is in the figure below; that the lower right-hand compound character also contains a distorted head,
