However, we must not underestimate the creator of the G text, he had more alternatives to choose from and a more complicated design in mind than the problems facing the engraver of the K tablet. For instance could he have chosen not to incorporate in his text a parallel to Ka2-6 in order to stimulate the reader to search for Canopus and Sirius somewhere else. The reader could hardly imagine such important stars would be at these rather insignificant glyphs:
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| Ga2-2 |
Ga2-3 |
Ga2-4 (35) |
| Canopus (95.6), ψ1 Aurigae (95.9) |
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| 'June 25 |
'26 (177) |
'27 |
| Albatain 13 (40) |
Al Tuwaibe' 1 |
2 |
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| Ga2-5 (36) |
Ga2-6 (*100) |
Ga2-7 |
Ga2-8 |
| ν Puppis (99.2), ψ3 Aurigae (99.4) |
ψ2 Aurigae (99.5) |
ψ4 Aurigae (100.5), Mebsuta (100.7), Sirius (101.2), ψ5 Aurigae (101.4) |
ψ6 Aurigae (101.7), τ Puppis (102.2), ψ7 Aurigae (102.4) |
| 'June 28 |
'29 (180) |
'30 |
'July 1 |
| Al Tuwaibe' 3 |
4 |
5 (45) |
6 |
I guess he wished to avoid the presence of Canopus and Sirius here in order to enhance the Cat's Tail stars of Auriga.
At the beginning of the new year after the solstice the Driver has to make use of his whip in order to make his carriage move forward again. Thus the creator of the G text may have manipulated time so as to push Canopus away from its proper place at tagata toki.
Sirius was presumably intended to be perceived at the 'eye-catching' Gb6-20 instead of at Ga2-7:
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| Gb6-17 (400) |
Gb6-18 |
Gb6-19 (*100) |
Gb6-20 |
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ν Puppis (99.2), ψ3 Aurigae (99.4) |
ψ2 Aurigae (99.5) |
ψ4 Aurigae (100.5), Mebsuta (100.7), Sirius (101.2), ψ5 Aurigae (101.4) |
| 'June 27 (178) |
'28 |
'29 |
'30 |
| Al Tuwaibe' 2 (42) |
3 |
4 |
5 |
This would force Canopus to be immedeately before glyph 399 (alluding to the synodical cycle of Jupiter). There are 5 (rima) days from Canopus to Sirius:
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| Gb6-11 |
Gb6-12 |
Gb6-13 |
Gb6-14 |
Gb6-15 |
Gb6-16 (399) |
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ξ Orionis (92.5), Tejat Prior (93.3) |
κ Aurigae (93.6) |
Furud (94.9), Tejat Posterior, Mirzam (95.4) |
Canopus (95.6), ψ1 Aurigae (95.9) |
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| 'June 21 (172) |
'22 |
St John's Eve |
St John's Day |
'25 |
'26 |
| Albatain 9 (36) |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
Al Tuwaibe' 1 |
Tagata in Gb6-15 can hardly as such be perceived as Canopus. Possibly it was meant the reader of the text should immediately find Canopus at tagata toki (Ga2-1) and then identify Sirius at Gb6-20. Perhaps the month Toki referred to Canopus.
An overview which may or may not have been in the mind of the creator of the G text:
| 99 |
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198 |
172 |
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| Ga1-30 |
Ga2-1 (32) |
Gb6-20 (403) |
| 173 |
'June 23 (St John's Eve) |
'24 (St John's Day) |
190 |
8 |
172 |
'June 30 (181) |
| *93 |
31 + 63 = *94 |
*95 |
403 + 63 = *466 |
| 100 |
372 (= 222 + 150) |
| 472 = 222 + 250 |
Glyph 372 (= 222 + 150) coincides with Sheratan 14 and Gregorian day 150:
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| Gb5-18 (372) |
Gb5-19 |
Gb5-20 |
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| 'May 30 (150) |
'31 |
'June 1 |
| Sheratan 14 |
Pleione 1 (15) |
2 |
Day 372 in the Gregiorian calendar coincides with day 236 in the manzil calendar:
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| Ga8-22 |
Ga8-23 (*290) |
Ga8-24 |
Ga8-25 (*292) |
Ga8-26 (230) |
| ζ Cor. Austr. (288.5), Manubrium (288.8), γ Cor. Austr. (289.3), τ Sagittarii (289.4) |
ι Lyrae (289.5), δ Cor. Austr. (289.8), Al Baldah, Alphekka Meridiana (290.1), β Cor. Austr. (290.2) |
Aladfar (291.1) |
Nodus II (291.5), ψ Sagittarii (291.6), θ Lyrae (291.8) |
Arkab Prior (293.0), Arkab Posterior, Alrami (293.2) |
| '19h (289.2) |
'January 5 |
'6 |
'7 (372) |
'8 |
| Shaula 2 |
3 |
4 |
5 (236) |
6 |