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2. We should also move in the opposite direction, looking at the glyphs which precede Rogo in Eb7-1:


Eb6-31	Eb6-32	Eb6-33	Eb6-34

Eb6-35	Eb6-36 (546)	Eb7-1	Eb7-2

I would like to discuss the meaning of ua, the glyph type in Eb6-34, a sign which seems to return at the top of Rogo in Eb7-1.

But first let me demonstrate another example of counting glyphs. This table summarizes how many glyphs there are in the lines of the Keiti (E) tablet:

a1	32	32	b1	42	368
a2	33	65	b2	27	395
a3	35	100	b3	38	433
a4	36	136	b4	42	475
a5	42	178	b5	35	510
a6	39	217	b6	36	546
a7	39	256	b7	42	588
a8	*34	290	b8	40	628
a9	36	326	sum	302	628
sum	*326		sum total	*628

The asterisks (*) denote uncertainty, that I have only a probable number to offer. In the tablet of Keiti there is not much uncertainty, but there is a blank space in line Ea8 which causes uncertainty.

Hipu in Eb7-2 will be glyph number 180 if we count from Eb2-1, which then suggests 10 * 18 or half 360.

I have spontaneously counted from Eb2-1 for two different reasons. First I reacted to number 368, which has emerged in several places in the rongorongo texts as a possible number for the days in a year.

And then I have also experienced that line b1 on a tablet seems to have been regarded as the last line of side a. Here line b1 is line number 10 counted from line a1.