It is obvious that in the text syllabic signs have not only been written next to each other, but they have also been written one above the other, as in the example:

We call these forms ligatures and we think that they reflect a specific characteristic of the language which was being expressed through the script.

In most cases there are 2 to 3 signs in the ligatures. As a rule, the beginning of a word was written with a ligature, whereas the end of the word whose beginning was written in a form of ligature was realized with one and very rarely with 2 to 3 syllables (signs).