'The Star Man of Fire' (ε Virginis, Vindemiatrix, Kakkab Mulu-ixi) culminated at midnight in May 22 (142) = 5 days after Porrima (γ Virginis, Kakkab-Dan-nu, 'the Star of the Hero'), which had culminated at midnight in May 17 (137), i.e. in Sheratan 1:
Allen: "In Babylonia it [γ Virginis] marked the 19th ecliptic constellation, Shur-mahrū-shirū, the Front, or West, Shur (?); while individually it was Kakkab Dan-nu, the Star of the Hero, and the reference point in their annals of an observation of Saturn¹ on the 1st of March, 228 B.C., the first mention of this planet that we have, and recorded by Ptolemy. ¹ Saturn was Χρόνος and Φαίνων, the Shiner, with the Greeks; Al Thākib, the Piercer, with the Arabs; and Saturn, or Stella Solis, with the Latins."
... On the Euphrates it [ε Virginis] may have been Kakkab Mulu-ixi, the Star Man of Fire, possibly symbolizing the god Laterak, the Divine King of the Desert; although that title has been assigned to μ Virginis and δ Librae ... In the drawing above I have redmarked the vertical line from ε down to γ, with the midpoint around δ, where Virgo had her girdle. It means δ served as a mark in time, like Mirach at the girdle of Andromeda:
The star Delta (δ Andromeda) was 3 days earlier than the Arabs' heliacal 'Zero':
But Mirach (β) was at RA day 16.0 which did not fit in this time structure. In Virgo δ (Minelauva) was rising between Porrima ('the Hero') and Vindemiatrix ('the Man of Fire'). I have not the midnight culmination dates for more than a few of the stars in my list. But we can interpolate in order to find where Minelauva ought to have culminated:
In May 20 also Cor Caroli (α Canum Venatici) culminated:
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