The Impossibility of Double Gallows

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This depends on which transcription was used in voynichese.com .
The fact that it has its own 'basic Eva' code means that there must be at least 10 occurrences.
This is still not a lot of course.

Thanks ReneZ, I didn't know 10 was the minimum requirement for the basic EVA characters.


And as often, more information only leads to more questions.

In some of the examples nablator points out, the character looks like a z. In others, it looks more like an m.
For example, the 69v one and the 70v outer ring one don't feature the descending long tail that m has, so I was inclined to think they could indeed be z. Later, on f70v, the other z that nablator points out is (to me) clearly an m.
m is a common character, with 1105 occurrences.

Interestingly, it appears that double m is also rare but possible; voynichese.com (and therefore takahashi) records two occurrences of double m:
daimm on 3r (that one I agree is definitely a double m) and damamm (which actually looks to me more like dazazm ) on 67v1.

So now I wonder: Is z merely a malformed m? Is m a small gallows?