5. I have suggested the midnight culmination of Antares could be depicted in Gb2-10 and that we therefore could assume the midnight culminations of other stars rising heliacally close to Scorpius to be close by in the text:
My
convention is to use a
straight line across a
star name, e.g. Counting from a 'star year' with 364 nights the distance from 'July 6 to the end of the year is 364 - 187 = 177 days, or 6 lunar synodic months. This is the same number of nights as that from 'June 1 to 'November 25:
From the heliacal rising of Antares in 'November 25 to the end of the star year there are 35 days (5 weeks), the same distance as that from the heliacal rising of the Pleiades in 'May 16 (day 136) to the beginning of the midwinter night in 'June 20 (day 171). 'March 21 (80) + 91 = 171. 35 + 186 = 221, which is the Toliman number. In order to put light on number 136 in my table below I have been forced to change my previous, only arbitrary, location of the 'leap day':
405 = 364 + 41= 365 + 40. Mago in Ga2-14 is not in 'July 11 (192) but in 'July 7, i.e. 4 days earlier:
The creator of the G text has presumably determined the culmination of Antares to be in the night between 'July 6 and 'July 7:
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