2. Both the H and the Q texts appear to be damaged, while the P text evidently is intact. There is one counterargument which may be raised to refute my argument that the P text is intact: Where the last glyph of Saturn-day in the 'calendar for the week' has a manu rere in the H version there is no glyph in P according to Fischer:
Probably the intention of the creator of the P text was to draw attention to glyph position 1104. Number 1104 equals 24 * 46 (whereas 1103 is a prime number). Both 24 and 46 are possible to associate to 'end' and their combination could therefore be suitable to occupy an empty glyph space (to draw attention) instead of the manu rere type of glyph. Perhaps Barthel compared with the H text and draw the conclusion that the P text had here lost an original manu rere. Number 46 is used also in the text of Tahua:
46 * (29 - 24) = 230 (equal to the number of glyphs on the front side of the G text). I am convinced the 'missing glyph' was meant as a Sign. If we should count with the empty glyph space the number for line Pb11 will be 61, otherwise it will be 60:
On side b we maybe should count to 560 (= 7 * 80 = 14 * 40 = 20 * 28) instead of to 559. 599 + 560 = 1159 = 19 * 61. With the last line (b11) carrying 61 we could furthermore find 599 + 499 = 18 * 61 (= 6 * 183). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
