Counting ordinal numbers from Ea1-1 we find that multiples of 32 are exceptional:
Indeed, the sign 32 is insisted on also at Ea3-32 (where 3 * 32 = 96):
Ea1-32 is depicted as only a 'ghost', Ea2-32 is ihe tau (death), and not until in the 10th period does a 'living canoe' enter into the text. Line a1 has 32 glyphs (Ea1-32 is the last in the line), line a2 has 33 glyph (necessary in order to put Ea2-32 in its correct position), while line a3 has 35 glyphs - presumably to reach 99, which means line a4 will begin with 100 (as if a new season has been born). |