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5. The 'binding of the years' could possibly refer to α Piscium = Alrisha:

Alrisha α Piscium 2º 31' N 01h 59m 30.2
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Gb6-26 (*1) Gb6-27 Gb6-28 Gb7-1 Gb7-2 (413) Gb7-3 Gb7-4
Gb7-25 (436) Gb7-26 (*29) Gb7-27 Gb7-28
Gb7-29 Gb7-30 Gb7-31
Gb8-1 (443) Gb8-2 Gb8-3 Gb8-4 Gb8-5 (*39)

A great fish is rising in Gb7-26 and 7 * 26 = 182. Inside this fish there seems to be a head with mouth straight down, a 'cap' sign (cfr at Da Capo). And the preceding glyph is a vaha mea, indicating the opening of a new season.

Alrisha is at bottom left where the band-strings are joined. Allen:

"Al Rescha, or Al Rischa, derived from the Arabians' Al Rishā', the Cord, is 20º south from the head of Aries, 2º.7 north of the celestial equator, and marks the knot in the united cords of the Fishes; the same title being applied to β Andromedae. This word originally may have come from the Babylonian Riksu, Cord."

"β [Andromedae] appeared in very early drawings as the lucida of the northern of the two Fishes, and marked the 26th manzil Al Batn al Hūt, the Belly of the Fish, or Al Kalb al Hūt, the Heart of the Fish; and the corresponding sieu Goei, or Kwei, the Man Striding, or the Strinding Legs anciently Kwet. In this location it was Al Rishā, the Band, Cord, Ribbon, or Thread, as being on the line uniting the Fishes; but this title now belongs to α Piscium."