THE D
TABLET
As I can remember it March 17 (77) was named Liberalia by
the Romans. And
according to my preliminary guess Terminalia (February
23, 54) should be at the last glyph in line Da7:
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Side a: |
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Da1 |
Da2 |
Da3 |
Da4 |
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Da5 |
Da6 |
Da7 |
Da8 |
|
300 |
320 |
336 |
350 |
1 |
22 |
39 |
55 |
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Oct 27 |
11-16 |
12-2 |
12-16 |
Jan 1 |
1-22 |
2-8 |
2-24 |
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20 |
16 |
15 |
15 |
21 |
17 |
16 |
6 |
|
20 |
36 |
51 |
66 |
21 |
38 |
54 |
60 |
|
51 |
66 |
54 |
60 |
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120 + 6 = 126 |
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... The leap day was introduced as part of the Julian reform.
The day following the Terminalia (February 23) was doubled,
forming the 'bis sextum - literally 'double sixth', since
February 24 was 'the sixth day before the Kalends of March'
using Roman inclusive counting (March 1 was the 'first day').
Although exceptions exist, the first day of the bis sextum
(February 24) was usually regarded as the intercalated or
'bissextile' day since the third century. February 29 came to be
regarded as the leap day when the Roman system of numbering days
was replaced by sequential numbering in the late Middle Ages ... |
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Side b: |
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Db1 |
Db2 |
Db3 |
|
Db4 |
Db5 |
Db6 |
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61 |
77 |
90 |
105 |
120 |
134 |
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March 1 |
3-17 |
3-30 |
4-14 |
4-29 |
5-13 |
|
16 |
13 |
15 |
15 |
14 |
13 |
|
16 |
29 |
44 |
15 |
29 |
42 |
|
29 |
44 |
29 |
42 |
|
44 + 42 = 86 |
|
134 + 13 =
147 = 21 weeks
350 + 15 =
365 = 512 - 147
512 = 8 * 64 |
However, before March 5 we should probably
count right ascension nights instead of dates in the Sun
calendar, and from there deduce the Sun dates via
the nakshatra method.
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 |
 |
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Da8-1 (66 + 55 = 121
→
11 * 11) |
Da8-2 (122 = 2 * 61) |
Da8-3 (123) |
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Febr 24
(365 + 31 + 24 = 420) |
25 |
26 |
|
ζ Aquarii, δ Gruis (*340.4)
PROCYON |
υ Oct. (*341.0) |
σ Gruis (*342.4) |
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 |
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Da8-4 |
Da8-5 (5 * 5 * 5 = 125) |
Da8-6 (18 weeks) |
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*343 (→ 7 * 7 * 7) |
ρ Gruis (*344.0) |
λ
Pegasi (*345.0) |
|
Febr 27 |
28 (424) |
29
(→ 229) |
February 29 should occur only in leap years, which suggests
March 1 (365 + 31 + 28 + 1 = 425, *345
→ The Pythagorean Triangle)
at Db1-1 has been defined for an ordinary year:
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4 |
|
12 |
17 |
|
 |
*3 |
 |
 |
*3 |
 |
*9 |
 |
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Db1-1 (126 + 1) |
Db1-4 (126 + 4) |
Db1-5 (66 + 65) |
Db1-8 (134) |
Db2-1 (143) |
|
March 1 (*345) |
March 4 (428, *348) |
March 5 (265 - 200) |
March 8 (68, 432) |
March 17 (143 - 66) |
| λ
Pegasi (*345.0) |
FOMALHAUT |
Fum-al-Samakah |
φ
Aquarii (*352.0) |
(*361, 441 = 7 * 63)
γ¹ Oct. (*361.4) |
|
4 + 12 = 16 |
However, in this part of the time-space structure things are complicated because the date for Bissextum
(the day following Terminalia in a leap year) might have been
in the mind of the creator of the G text:
... The leap day was introduced as part of the Julian reform.
The day following the Terminalia (February 23) was doubled,
forming the 'bis sextum - literally 'double sixth', since
February 24 was 'the sixth day before the Kalends of March'
using Roman inclusive counting (March 1 was the 'first day').
Although exceptions exist, the first day of the bis sextum
(February 24) was usually regarded as the intercalated or
'bissextile' day since the third century. February 29 came to be
regarded as the leap day when the Roman system of numbering days
was replaced by sequential numbering in the late Middle Ages ...
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Gb2-21 |
Gb2-22 |
Gb2-23 |
Gb2-24 (50) |
Gb2-25 (280) |
Gb2-26 |
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δ Tucanae (340.1), ρ
Cephei (340.2), ν Gruis (340.3),
ζ Aquarii, δ Gruis
(340.4),
5/1100 Lac. (340.7), σ Aquarii, 6/650 Lac. (340.9)
PROCYON (α
Canis Minoris)
|
υ Oct. (341.0),
α/91 Lac. (341.1), HOMAN (Hero) = ζ Pegasi, β Piscis
Austrini (341.2), ν Tucanae (341.5), υ Aquarii (341.9) |
η Aquarii (342.1),
σ Gruis
(342.4),
SITULA (Water Jar) = κ Aquarii (342.7) |
ε Piscis Austrini
(343.5), ο Pegasi, β Gruis (343.8) |
ρ Gruis (344.0),
MATAR (Rain) = η Pegasi (344.2), η Gruis (344.6), β Oct.
(344.7) |
λ Pegasi (345.0),
ξ Pegasi (345.1), ε Gruis (345.3), τ Aquarii (345.7), ξ
Oct. (345.8), μ Pegasi (345.9) |
|
Febr 24 |
25
(*341) |
26 |
27 (58) |
28 (424) |
March 1 (*345) |
This problem could evidently have been solved by the creator of
the D text because he seems to have put the extra (leap) day in the
interval between the last glyph hight up on side a and the first glyph
in the bottom line on
side b of his tablet.
... Horapollo, the grammarian of Alexandria,
about A.D. 400, tells us that the crane was the symbol of a
star-observer in Egypt ...
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