Searching for other places in the C text where Metoro said koia ra we will find the same position in time, viz. the day before 11h, but this not in the nakshatra but in the heliacal perspective:
This fact seems to prove Metoro was aware of how half a cycle (181 days) meant the return of a heliacal position as a nakshatra position. 167 (at heliacal Dubhe, Ca6-27) + 181 = 348 (at nakshatra Dubhe, Ca13-6):
Ca6-27 could allude to number 627 = 19 * 33 (where 33, we should remember, on Hawaii was equal to the ideal number of days from the evening reappearance of the Pleiades to the winter solstice). My table indicates that nakshatra Fum al Samakah (β Piscium) may have marked the final of the old year. 348 = 12 * 29 = the number of glyphs on side b of the tablet. 348.3 (Fum al Samakah, 'the Mouth of the Fish') - 186.3 (Chang Sha, 'the Long Sandbank', ζ Corvi) = 6 * 27 = 162 days. 186.3 (Chang Sha) - 162 = RA day 24.3 = Gregorian day 104 (April 14), precisely one day after the heliacal rising of Achernar:
14 * 26 = 364. It was a leap year and therefore April 13 (104) - 81 = 23. In an ordinary year Achernar would also have risen heliacally in April 13, but then in Gregorian day 103. April 13 can be written as 4-13 and then read as 413 = 14 * 29½. Benetnash (208.5) - 181 = 27.5 is very close to Sheratan (27.4) and I would therefore like to once again update my table:
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