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At Gb1-19 a sign has been added to Gb1-14 and it looks like a black arrow-head pointing down:

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Gb1-14 Gb1-19
CANCER:
8 Pushya γ, δ, and θ Cancri Cow's udder, lotus, arrow and circle  128 = 113 + 15
the nourisher Beehive July 27 (208)
●NOVEMBER 8 9 (ф294) 10 (314) 11 12 (*236) 13
Gb1-14 Gb1-15 Gb1-16 Gb1-17 Gb1-18 Gb1-19 (248)
NOVEMBER 19 20 (324) 21 22 23 24
Gredi (307.2), σ Capricorni (307.5), Alshat (307.9) Al Sa’d al Dhabih-20 / Ox / Herd Boy-9 Okul (309.6), Bos (309.9)

Arneb

ο Capricorni (310.2), θ Cephei (310.5)

Alnilam

Rotten Melon, φ Pavonis (311.2), η Delphini (311.4), ζ Delphini, ρ Pavonis (311.7)

Phakt

Rotanev, ι Delphini (312.3), τ Capricorni (312.6), κ Delphini (312.7), SVALOCIN, υ Capricorni, υ Pavonis (312.8)
DABIH (308.0), κ Sagittarii (308.1), Sadir (308.4), Peacock (308.7)
January 22 23 24 25 26 (ф372) 27 (392)
'Dec 26 (360) 27 28 29 30 (ф345) 31 (*285)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
●MAY 10 11 12 13 14 15 (135)
MAY 21 22 23 24 25 26 (146)
χ Cancri (125.2), Bright Fire (125.4) Avior (126.4), φ Cancri (126.8) ο Ursa Majoris (127.4)  Pushya-8 Āshleshā-9 / Willow-24 Al Nathrah-6
υ Cancri (128.1), θ CANCRI (128.2), η Cancri (128.5) π¹ Ursa Majoris, δ HYDRAE (129.6), Al Minhar al Shujā, Museida (129.9)

Ras Alhague

BEEHIVE (130.4), Xestus (130.5), Ascellus Borealis (130.9)
July 24 25 26 27 28 (ф190) 29 (210)
'June 27 28 (ф160) 29 (*100) 30 (SIRIUS) 'July 1 2 (183)

This sign could refer to the idea of rebirth because it was at the opposite side of the year compared to the halfway (10th) Babylonian ecliptic station. Moreover an arrow is hard and straight - not like something rotten:

... Branch by lying with Fork-of-tree made Beetle-that-lives-in-rotten-wood ...

Should we count from Sirius to γ Cancri (Beehive) the distance would be found as 210 - 181 = 29 days. This result is in a way more reasonable than the earlier:

●APRIL 18 (108) 19 20 (ф91) 21 204 ●NOVEMBER 12 13 (*237)
Mash-mashu-sha-Risū-10 Adara (104.8) ω Gemini (105.4), Alzirr (105.7), Muliphein (105.8), Mekbuda (105.9) 7h (106.5) Rotten Melon, φ Pavonis (311.2), η Delphini (311.4), ζ Delphini, ρ Pavonis (311.7) Rotanev, ι Delphini (312.3), τ Capricorni (312.6), κ Delphini (312.7), SVALOCIN, υ Capricorni, υ Pavonis (312.8)
θ Gemini (103.0), ψ8 Aurigae (103.2), ALHENA (103.8), ψ9 Aurigae (103.9) no star listed (106)
187 17
Ga2-9 Ga2-10 (40) Ga2-11 Ga2-12 (42) 204 Gb1-18 Gb1-19 (248)
ºJune 28 29 (*100) 30 (SIRIUS) ºJuly 1 (182) 181 'December 30 31 (365)

But then we would have to change view from heliacal to nakshatra somewhere in the interval from Ga2-12 to Gb1-19.

The black 'arrow head' was also used at nakshatra Bharani in Ga6-19, although there pointing up (comparable to how the 'egg' at nakshatra Sirrah was at bottom instead of held high in front as in Ga2-9 at heliacal Alhena):

●FEBRUARY 3 (399) 33 1 117 ●JULY 6 (ф168) 40 ●AUGUST 16 (ф209)
Gb7-28 (209) Ga5-8 (118) Ga6-19 (159)
HELIACAL HAMAL SIRRAH BHARANI
193
ARIES:
1 Ashvini β and γ Arietis Horse's head 27 = 16 + 11
wife of the Ashvins Sheratan and Mesarthim April 17 (107)
2 Bharani 35, 39, and 41 Arietis Yoni, the female organ of reproduction 41 = 27 + 14
the bearer  Musca Borealis May 1 (121)
●JULY 4 (ф166) 5 (186) 6 (*107) 7 37
Ga5-6 Ga5-7 Ga5-8 (118) Ga5-9
JULY 15 (ф177) 16 17 (198) 18
no star listed (180) π Virginis (181.0), θ Crucis (181.5) 12h (182.6) Alchita, Ma Wei (183.1), Minkar (183.7), ρ Centauri (183.9)
ο Virginis (182.1), η Crucis (182.5)
September 17 (260) 18 19 20
'August 21 (ф214) 22 23 (*155) 24 (236)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
●JANUARY 3 (368) 4 (ф350) 5 6
JANUARY 14 (ф360) 15 (380) 16 17
η Tucanae (363.0), ψ Pegasi (363.1), 32 Piscium (363.2), π Phoenicis (363.4), ε Tucanae (363.6), τ Phoenicis (363.9) θ Oct. (364.4) Al Fargh al Thāni-25 Uttara Bhādrapadā-27 / Wall-14
0h (365.25)
Caph, SIRRAH (0.5), ε Phoenicis, γ³ Oct. (0.8) ο Oct. (1.3), ALGENIB PEGASI (1.8)
March 19 (ф59) 20 (*364) 21 (ф426) 22 (446)
'February 20 (ф32) 21 22  (ф399) TERMINALIA (54)
"February 6 (ф18) 7 8 (*324) 9 (40)
●AUGUST 14 15 (ф208) 16 (*148) 17 (229)
Ga6-17 (157) Ga6-18 Ga6-19 Ga6-20
AUGUST 25 26 27 28 (240)
ρ Lupi (221.0), Toliman (221.2), π Bootis (221.8), ζ Bootis (221.9) 31 Bootis (222.0), Yang Mun (222.1), Rijl al Awwa (222.5), ο Bootis (222.9) Izar (223.0), 109 Virginis, α Apodis (223.3) Al Zubānā-14a / Visakha-16 / Root-3
ZUBEN ELGENUBI (224.2), ξ Bootis, ο Lupi (224.5)
October 28 29 30 31 (304)
'October 1 2 3 4 (277)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
●FEBRUARY 13 (*329) 14 (45) 15 (ф392) 16
FEBRUARY 24 (420) 25 26 27 (58)
μ Arietis (39.4), Head of the Fly (39.6), Kaffaljidhma (39.8) ο Arietis (40.0), Angetenar (40.2), Right Wing (40.9) Bharani-2 / Stomach-17 no star listed (42)
π Arietis (41.2), BHARANI (41.4), τ² Eridan, σ Arietis (41.7)
April 29 30 (120) May 1 (486) 2
'April 2 (92) 3 4 5 (460)
"March 19 20 (444) 0h 22 (81)

According to Wilkinson there was a peculiar custom in ancient Egypt, where pregnant women would step up onto a brick when birth was due:

He mentions this when relating how in pictures a head often was used pars pro toto as representing the whole person. The female head at right represented Menschenet, the goddess of child birth. The brick has here been black-painted, which I interpret as alluding to the black night of the Moon (●) when a new month was born.

However, Wilkinson does not reflect on why there was a Brick at Birth. I believe we should also here use the principle of pars pro toto and then the single Brick ought to represent a Building, a house.

Egyptian house Phoenician beth Greek beta Β (β)

... Like the names of most other Greek letters, the name of beta was adopted from the acrophonic name of the corresponding letter in Phoenician, which was the common Semitic word *bayt ('house').

In the system of Greek numerals beta had a value of 2.

The custom to build a new house at the birth of a royal baby boy was remembered on Easter Island:

... 'The traditions show that the residences of the king were fairly flexible. The building of new houses was obviously the result of (male) births in the royal family. In each case, the house that was built last is left to the newborn son and his mother, together with a specific servant, while the king has a new and separate residence constructed for himself ...

The 'houses of the Moon' (lunar stations) - such as the Hindu 2nd nakshatra station Bharani - were coordinated with where the Full Moon was among the stars. At my reconstructed star positions for the time of Bharani the nakshatra date "March 21 was at Ga6-19.

But Ga5-8 (41 glyphs earlier) was number 472 / 4 = 118 = 4 * 29½ and nakshatra Sirrah at March 21 could here refer to the Sun 'birth' south of the equator at ο Virginis and at 12h close to the southern spring equinox.

The male head in the Egyptian picture above is not attached to a brick but to a piece of land - a sign which, says Wilkinson, was used when representing people in Lower Egypt. There is an obvious contrast between the black inside of a house, with a female giving birth and nourishing children, on one hand and on the other hand the alfa male outside in the Sun light making war and conquering new lands.

Egyptian head Phoenician aleph Greek alpha Α (α)

In Gardiner's sign list this is E2, aggressive bull.

Wilkinson had copied this part of his illustration from an object designed at the time of the Narmer palette, where the military victories of king Narmer (1st dynasty) was described, when he was said to have united Upper and Lower Egypt into a single great land.

... The king, wearing now a short, stiff archaic mantle, walks in a grave and stately manner to the sanctuary of the wolf-god Upwaut, the 'Opener of the Way', where he anoints the sacred standard and, preceded by this, marches to the palace chapel, into which he disappears. A period of time elapses during which the pharaoh is no longer manifest.

When he reappears he is clothed as in the Narmer palette, wearing the kilt with Hathor belt and bull's tail attatched. In his right hand he holds the flail scepter and in his left, instead of the usual crook of the Good Shepherd, an object resembling a small scroll, called the Will, the House Document, or Secret of the Two Partners, which he exhibits in triumph, proclaiming to all in attendance that it was given him by his dead father Osiris, in the presence of the earth-god Geb. 'I have run', he cries, 'holding the Secret of the Two Partners, the Will that my father has given me before Geb. I have passed through the land and touched the four sides of it. I traverse it as I desire.' ...