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In the text on the Small Washington tablet there are 3 rona glyphs at the beginning of glyph line Rb8:

Rb8-1 Rb8-2 (401) Rb8-3
Rb8-4 Rb8-5 Rb8-6 Rb8-7
Rb8-8 Rb8-9 (408) Rb8-10 Rb8-11 Rb8-12
Rb8-13 Rb8-14 (413) Rb8-15 Rb8-16 Rb8-17
There may be 4 glyphs missing here at the end of line b8.

According to my efforts in counting the glyphs of R the first glyph in line Rb8 could be number 400 (from *Ra1-1). The central rona in the triplet above will then be at number 404.

Counting from rona in Ra2-9 we will find the distance to be 364 glyphs (maybe referring to 364 days or possibly to 364 / 2 = 182 days):

side a side b
*226 ca 224
38 187 177 46
Ra2-9 (39) 364 Rb8-5 (404)
ca 450

After having turned the tablet over from its front side to its back side there is an estimated number of 177 (= 6 * 29.5) glyphs remaining to rona in Rb8-5.

Rona in Ra2-9 (as in 29) has nuku legs, a straight long neck and is falling on his head (not on his face). It could refer to a dark night immediately beyond the final of autumn. Rona in Rb8-5 has different traits and it looks as if he is flying away.

Up to now we have not used the text of R in this dictionary. We should therefore here invest some time and effort with a few pages in order to, if possible, make sure that side b really is the back side of the text.