My investigation of the G text began with a pair of 'axioms', viz. that each glyph represented a day and that Antares was depicted in Ga7-16 and Aldebaran in Ga1-4:
I had at first recognized the form of the Scorpion constellation and then I assumed the other 'shark' standing straight up could be the same one rising in the east. Or rather, another asterism at the opposite side of the sky. According to my assumed pattern there could hardly be another star than Aldebaran at Ga1-4. Then I counted to see if my guess could be true:
Later I came to the tentative conclusion that the glyph numbers should be counted from Gb8-30 instead of from Ga1-1, and by using this method we can see how Gb2-16 fits in the pattern:
Sadalmelik is α Aquarii and I am therefore convinced the strange arrangement in Gb2-16 refers to the Aquarius constellation in the same way as the 'shark' in Ga7-16 refers to the Scorpius constellation and Aldebaran in Ga1-4 to Taurus.
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