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6. The beads inside the southern (lower) bowl on the L and the R strings remain to be counted.

The L string is exceptional in diving under both the C and the R string. Below I have also counted the beads outside the rims:

L string of the southern bowl:
9   1   3  
9 10 13
3 4 2 7 2 3 4
16 20 22 29 31 34 38
3 1 2 7 2 5 5
41 42 44 51 53 58 63

At first I hesitated if I should count also beads which are hidden by the broad lines crossing each other in the center of the southern bowl. But when I counted also them my hesitation disappeared because the total number 63 will then agree with the total number 63 of the northern bowl:

L string of the northern bowl:
22 2 2 9 1 4 4 2
22 24 26 35 36 40 44 46
2 4 1 1 2 2 3 2
48 52 53 54 56 58 61 63

Perhaps this double crossing is a hint for the viewer to make him understand that the lower bowl represents the southern sky 'ruled by Moon' - who has 2 faces in contrast to Sun who has only 1 face. The pair of equally long L-strings underlines my suggestion.

In the northern bowl the strings form a triangular shape (where we can count 4 + 5 + 6 = 15 beads, a triangular numer). In the lower bowl the strings generate a form similar to that of θ.

The R string is at one point diving under the C string (precisely as the R string of the northern bowl):

R string of the southern bowl:
12   3 7 1
12 15 22 23
5 4 4 1 5 3 3 2 1 4 1
28 32 36 37 42 45 48 50 51 55 56
R string of the northern bowl:
16   4 3 1 2 4
16 20 23 24 26 30
3 4 2 1 5 5 3 1 6 2 1 3 3 4 2
33 37 39 40 45 55 58 59 65 67 68 71 74 78 80

Despite the uncertainties we should try to summarize the bowls:

Southern bowl:
  L C R Sum
To the rim: 9 7 12 28
Inside the bowl: 1 + 3 19 11 34
Sum: 13 26 23 62
Inside the bowl: 50 23 33 106
Sum visible beads: 63 49 56 168
Northern bowl:
  L C R Sum
To the rim: 22 20 16 58
Inside the bowl: 24 10 14 48
Sum: 46 30 30 106
Inside the bowl: 17 19 45 81
Sum visible beads: 63 49 75 187
The bowls together:
  L C R Sum
To the rim: 31 27 28 86
Inside the bowl: 28 29 25 82
Sum: 59 56 53 168
Inside the bowl: 67 42 78 187
Sum visible beads: 126 98 131 355

Day 126 (= 63 + 63) corresponds to 3h beyond spring equinox (north of the equator), the place of Algol:

Gb8-6 (*39) Gb8-7 Gb8-8
  Head of the Fly (39.6), Kaffaljidhma (39.8)  Right Wing (40.9), Bharani (41.4)
'April 29 '30 'May 1 (121)
Gb8-9 (*42) Gb8-10 Gb8-11 Gb8-12
    Acamar (43.6) Menkar (44.7)
'2 '3 '4 '5 (125)
Gb8-13 (*46) Gb8-14 Gb8-15 Gb8-16
Algol (45.9), Misam (46.2) Botein (46.9) Zibal (48.0)  
3h (45.7) '7 '8 '9 (129)

It is day 46 from equinox.

Number 7 has evidently been used when distributing beads on the strings: 126 = 18 * 7, 98 = 14 * 7, and 168 = 24 * 7.

The total number of beads for the northern bowl is 187 (= 11 * 17). It is equal to the number of beads in the bottom parts of the 2 bowls together (81 + 106 = 187). Likewise the total number of beads for the southern bowl (168) is equal to the number of beads in upper part of the 2 bowls together.

The total number of beads, according to my best counting efforts, is 355. It could represent the day number for winter solstice:

January 31 31
February 28 59
March 31 90
April 30 120
May 31 151
June 30 181
July 31 212
August 31 243
September 30 273
Oktober 31 304
November 30 334
December 21 355

If we add 186 (= 80 + 106) to 168 the result is 354 (= 12 * 29½).