2. Allen has not much to say of the apparently insignificant Hassaleh:
"ι, 3.1, was Al Tizini's Al Ka'b dhi'l 'Inān, which other authors gave to γ; and Kazwini included it with the latter in his Al Tawābi' al 'Ayyūk."
This does not make us any wiser, especially as γ Aurigae is omitted not only from the star map which I copied from Wikipedia but also from my astronomy book.
Not even by looking in the extensive Wikipedia list of stars in the constellation Auriga can we find γ. But of course Allen must have some information:
"γ, 2.1, brilliant white, was Al Ka'b dhi'l 'Inān, the Head of the Rein-holder, of Arabian astronomy, so showing its location in the figure of Auriga. From the earliest days of descriptive astronomy it has been identical with the star al Nath, the β of Taurus at the extremity of the right horn, and Aratos so mentioned it. Vitruvius, however, said that it was Aurigae Manus, because the Charioteer was supposed to hold it in his hand, which would imply a very different drawing from that of Rome, Greece, and our own; and Father Hell, in 1769, correctly had this expression for the star θ. The later Arabian astronomers also considered it in Taurus by designating it as Al Karn al Thaur al Shamāliyyah, the Norhern Horn of the Bull; but Kazwini adhered to Auriga by giving 'the two in the ankles' as Al Tawābi' al 'Ayyūk, the Goat's Attendants, Ideler identifying these with γ and ι."
Thus we have to look in Taurus to find γ Aurigae:
Once again we have a star which is shared between two constellations. Maybe we had better begin to make a list of them:
Glyph number 492 probably refers to the extremity of a 'year' because the number is equal to 300 + 192. Or maybe we should rather say equal to 392 + 100 (following the method we have used earlier). 392 is the number of glyphs on side a of the Mamari tablet.
Gb6-9 is number 392 and if we add 64 it becomes 456, a number which resembles 123 - cfr at The Tail Feathers, e.g.:
Glyph number 456 corresponds to δ Arietis (Botein at the tail of the Ewe):
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