Except for Hassaleh I have not listed any stars in this region:
In my preliminary glyph type dictionary I labelled the bird-like man tagata rere (although without much evidence for such a name from the readings of Metoro):
Possibly tagata rere indicates a 'Bird Man'. The figure has the head of tagata and rere was firmly affixed by Metoro to manu in his manu rere. We have seen some evidence for a correlation between stretches with no ruling stars and 'dark' times (outside the normal illuminated flow of calendar events). After a quick search for stars with right ascension a few days before 5h my conclusion is that there indeed are no further stars of importance here. This makes Hassaleh more important. Hassaleh is ι Aurigae:
In his treatise on the astrolabe, created for his 10 year old son, the poet Chaucer (ca 1343 - 1400) had Hassaleh as his first star of notice: "Little Lewis my son, I perceive well by certain evidences thine ability to learn sciences touching numbers and proportions; and as well consider I thy constant prayer in special to learn the treatise of the Astrolabe. Than for as much as a philosopher saith, 'He wrappth him in his friend, that condescendth to the rightful prayers of his friend', therefore have I given thee a suffisant Astrolabe as for our horizons, compounded after the latitude of Oxford; upon which, by means of this little treatise, I purpose to teach thee a certain number of conclusions pertaining to the same instrument." (Wikipedia)
Chaucer's list of 12 important stars are well known for us, all except his Alradif, which we must add to our list:
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