There are 25 glyphs in line a2 and the first 7 of them form a group:
Raaraa (no Sun) is in the center, and at the beginning is the unusual Ca2-1, which is the same type of glyph as Ha5-24 and Qa5-14 (where the group apparently consists of 5 glyphs with marama in the center):
Notably Hb11-28 is quite similar, but here there is another entity at the top, evidently generated by the preceding strong kava which has lost its mata and instead poked a hole at the top in Hb11-28, forming a 'pupil' in the 'eye':
Without this hole the image could have depicted an egg. A 'little one' can be seen in front in Ca2-2. At Hb11-27 we can count 112 * 7 = 784 = 16 * 49 = 28 * 28. The number of glyphs on side a of the Marama tablet is 392 = 784 / 2. 26 (line a1) + 7 (beginning of line a2) = 33. Then comes another group, which is formed by13 glyphs:
At left in Ca2-18 (where 21 * 8 = 168) is an element which ought to be classified as hipu. Yet, there is a resemblance with puo in Ca1-5. The 'eyes' in the following honui (Ca2-19) are curious, maybe they depict ears? There are no hands in Ca2-9 and no head at left in Ca2-12. Tamaiti in Ca2-16 could be significant because 216 perhaps refers to August 4 (84 days from May 12). 216 - 42 = 174 (June 24, St John's Day). 3 is a number 'underlined' (exhibited clearly). There are only 3 heads in the pair of kea glyphs and between them tagata rere at left in Ca2-11 has in front a vai with 1 missing 'limb'. ... The chaotic tumult in the Curia (where the Senate had their meeting and where they killed Caesar) resulted in his dead body left lying on the floor, while all the Senators panicked and ran out through the doors in different directions. They had planned to throw his body into the river, but the time of plans and order was in the past. Instead, in the afternoon, three of the slaves of Caesar came and fetched his body, and carried him on a stretcher to his home south of Forum - and one arm was hanging down in the corner where the 4th slave should have been ... 5 glyphs complete line a2:
The form in Ca2-21 resembles that in Gb7-9:
Dates within parenthesis are those heliacal dates which can be inferred if the dates at the beginning of side a are extrapolated backwards in time. The other dates are those heliacal dates which are derived by moving ahead from side a to the beginning of side b and then forward all the way to its end. It is not certain that any of these two alternatives are correct, but April 1 (day 91 in the Gregorian calendar) is perhaps more reasonable than July 17. The manzil date numbers according to both alternatives agree with the ordinal numbers for the glyphs in the line. |
