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What kind of dawn could there be described in Cb12? Perhaps it was referring to how in the times of Al Sharatain this was the time when Christ was born (*):

'December 19 20 (720) solstice (355) 22
'June 19 20 solstice (172) 22
January 14 15 16 (748) 17
July 16 17 18 (565) 19 (200)
Cb11-22 (666) Cb12-1 Cb12-2 Cb12-3 (277)
ki te vage Rei Te nuku te ua te ika
ζ Sagittae (300.1), Altair (300.3), ο Aquilae (300.5), Bezek (300.8) ι Sagittarii (301.2), Terebellum, ξ Aquilae (301.3), Alshain (301.6), φ Aquilae (301.8) ε Pavonis, θ Sagittarii (302.3), γ Sagittae (302.5), μ Pavonis (302.7) τ Aquilae (303.8)
Azmidiske (117.4) no star listed (118) Drus (119.9) no star listed (120)
'December 23 'Christmas Eve 'Christmas Day 26 (360)
'JUne 23 (540) 24 25 26 (177)
January 18 (384) 19 20 21
July 20 (201) 21 22 23
Cb12-4 (670) Cb12-5 Cb12-6 (280) Cb12-7
te henua ma te hua vai o maro hia oho te vae kua ku moe mai
η Sagittae (304.2), δ Pavonis (304.4) Shang Wei (305.2), θ Sagittae (305.4), Tseen Foo (305.6), ξ Capricorni (305.8) Tso Ke (306.4) Gredi (307.2), σ Capricorni (307.5), Alshat (307.9)
Naos (121.3) ρ Puppis (122.0), Heap of Fuel (122.1), ζ Monocerotis (122.3), Regor (122.7) Tegmine (123.3) Al Tarf (124.3)

Ras Algethi

Another interpretation is to connect ε, μ, and δ Pavonis with the hua (offspring) in Cb12-4:

... this bird has long been a symbol of immortality, fancifully said to be from the annual renewing of its feathers; but this is common to all birds, and the symbolism probably is from the fact that its starry tail rendered the peacock sacred to Juno, the immortal queen of the heavens, and thus in classical times, as in the days of chivalry, an object of adjuration.

This bird was still further astronomical in originally having been Argos, the builder of the ship Argo, who was changed by Juno to a peacock when his vessel was transferred to the sky ...

Metoro did not say te kahi in Cb12-3, simply te ika. However, its position was the solstice, when in the times of Al Sharatain the Sun rose at the beginning of the Peacock constellation.

At 'Christmas Eve Metoro told Bishop Jaussen to count (hia). Could he have referred to RA 304.4 for δ Pavonis? 304.4 - 11.4 (η Andromedae) = 293.

Or could he have pointed at 671 = 11 * 61 as a Sign of 'one more' (eleven) than 10 doublemonths?

Egyptian door Phoenician dalet Greek delta Δ (δ)

... Delta (uppercase Δ, lowercase δ) ... is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 4. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Dalet.

Letters that come from delta include Latin D and Cyrillic Д. A river delta (originally, the Nile River delta) is so named because its shape approximates the upper-case letter delta (the shape is a triangle) ...

Dalet (dāleth, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth letter of many Semitic alphabets ... The letter is based on a glyph of the Middle Bronze Age alphabets, probably called dalt 'door' (door in Modern Hebrew is delet), ultimately based on a hieroglyph depicting a door.

It strikes me that if we should exclude the last 8 glyphs on side b, then 740 - 8 = 732 = 12 * 61. I.e., 671 + 61 = 732.

6 * 61 = 366 and 366 - 340 = 26, i.e. the first half of 732 ended with *Ca14-3 (because there are 29 glyphs in line Cb14).

'February 20 21 (52) 22 23 (420) 24
'August 22 (600) 23 24 (236) 25 26
March 19 20 21 (80) 22 23 (448)
Sept18 (261) 19 20 21 22 (equinox)
*Ca14-1 *Ca14-2 *Ca14-3 (366) *Ca14-4 *Ca14-5
Kua tupu te ata i te henua
η Tucanae (363.0), 32 Piscium (363.2, ψ Pegasi (363.1), π Phoenicis (363.4), ε Tucanae (363.6), τ Phoenicis (363.9) no star listed (364) Al Fargh al Thāni-25 Uttara Bhādrapadā-27 / Wall-14 χ Pegasi (2.1), θ Andromedae (2.7)
0h (365.25)
Caph, SIRRAH (0.5), ε Phoenicis (0.8) ALGENIB PEGASI (1.8)
no star listed (181) 12h (182.6) Alchita, Ma Wei (183.1), Minkar (183.7), ρ Centauri (183.9) Pálida (184.6), Megrez (184.9) Hasta-13 / Chariot-28
π Virginis (182.0), ο Virginis (182.1). θ Crucis (182.5) GIENAH (185.1), ε Muscae (185.2). ζ Crucis (185.4), Zaniah (185.9)

The half hidded henua in *Ca14-3 could refer to RA day 364, but in the times of Al Sharatain it would have been 'February 21, i.e. Gregorian day 52 as if alluding to 52 weeks = 364.

A slightly higher up dot at *Ca14-5 could refer to Terminalia ('February 23) and an even higher dot at *Ca14-1 (364) to 'February 19 (50). 364 - 50 = 314:

'February 15 16 (413) 17 18 19 (50)
'August 17 18 (230) 19 20 21 (599)
3-14 March 15 16 17 18 (77)
September 13 14 15 16 17 (260)
Ca13-16 Ca13-17 (360) Ca13-18 Ca13-19 Ca13-20
oho te vae tagata puoko erua tagata puo pouo vero hia -
λ Piscium (358.0), Alrai, θ Phoenicis (358.4) ω Aquarii (359.2) σ Phoenicis (360.4) φ Pegasi (361.7) Dzaneb (362.4)

Acubens

ο Hydrae (176.1) ζ Crateris, ξ Virginis (177.0), λ Muscae (177.1), ν Virginis (177.2), μ Muscae (177.8) Al Sarfah-10 / Uttara Phalguni-12 Phekda, β Hydrae (179.3), η Crateris (179.9) no star listed (180)
93 Leonis (178.0), DENEBOLA (178.3), Alaraph (178.6)

Deneb Cygni