·     Features – iconographically representing a shield:

o (Squarish) boulder / circle outline.

o A medium-sized circle at each of the four corners (canonically empty).

o An inner circle with a face in it (typically two eyes), but instead of a mouth, there is often a hand (for holding the shield?).

o Cross-hatching between the inner and outer circles – typically with non-cross-hatched areas between the cross-hatching and the outer circle and also between the cross-hatching and the inner circle.

·     25EMC.pdfp44.#6.4 gives an extremely aberrant variant – perhaps from a ceramic inscription? Even the BMM9 example is quite unusual.