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2. The last glyph on the back side of the G tablet is evidently coordinated with day 63 from 'March 21, where Hyadum I was rising heliacally. I have assumed the reader of the text should imagine Hyadum II to be at the same glyph (we can imagine twin cycles which are interconnected and therefore constitute a single entity - like the twins in a π-nut):
 
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Gb8-28 Gb8-29 Gb8-30 (*63) Gb8-30 (1)
    Beid (62.2) Hyadum I (63.4) Hyadum II (64.2)
4 '4h (60.9) 'May 22 '23 '24 (144)
Sheratan 5 6 7 8
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Ka1-1 (*67) Ka1-2 Ka1-3 Ka1-4 Ka1-5
    Aldebaran (68.2) Theemin (68.5)    
10 '27 (147) 'May 28 '29 '30 '31 (151)
Sheratan 11 12 13 14 Pleione 1 (15)

It is easy to compare the part at left in Ka1-1 with Gb8-30. But we should not be lead astray by the similarity in shape, and the dates appear to be different. There is instead more reason to compare the puo ('hilled up') glyph Gb8-30 with the upper part in Ka1-2. The shapes are more alike.

Perhaps there is a connection between the type puo and the month 'May, because Gb8-8 is the same as Gb8-30:

Gb8-6 (448) Gb8-7 (*40) Gb8-8 Gb8-9
  Head of the Fly (39.6), Kaffaljidhma (39.8) Right Wing (40.9), Bharani (41.4)  
'April 29 '30 (120) 'May 1 '2
Al Muakhar 11 12 13 (350) Alrescha 1

The figure in Ka1-1 also more resembles an upside down version of the 'fruit' (hua) hanging in front at the end of 'April (both in Gb8-6 and Gb8-7). Furthermore, we can compare with the 'fruit' hanging down in front in the very special Gb7-26:

Gb7-24 Gb7-25 (436) Gb7-26 (*28)
Polaris, Baten Kaitos (26.6), Metallah (26.9), Segin, Mesarthim (27.2), Sheratan (27.4)
'April 16 '17 '18 (108)
Almuqaddam 11 12 (336) 13

Vaha mea in Gb7-25 is glyph 436 which is a number coinciding with 100 more than the number of the manzil day. When the glyph number is higher than the manzil day number this is the case in the G text. Otherwise the manzil day number is 7 higher than the glyph number. 100 + 7 = 107 = 472 - 365.

And the Gregorian day number is 229 (= 336 - 107) lower than the manzil day number. Otherwise the manzil day number is 136 lower than the Gregorian day number. 229 + 136 = 365.