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Assuming side a on the G tablet was intended to present the front side, viz. with the face of the Sun correlated with the stars rising simultaneously;

... It should be stated right now that 'fire' is actually a great circle reaching from the North Pole of the celestial sphere to its South Pole ...

we can put heliacal Drus - in Roman times rising with the Sun at midsummer - at Ga2-25, and then Drus at the Full Moon half a year later on the back side:

18 73 25
Gb6-26 Gb7-17 Ga1-29
March 21 (445) April 9 (99) June 22 (173)
SIRRAH ADHIL (*19) TEJAT PRIOR (*93)
ALCHITA (*183) SPICA (*202) η Sagittarii (*276)
Sept 20 (263) Oct 9 (292) Dec 22 (356)
"Febr 8 (39) 27 (58) "May 12 (132)
"Aug 10 (*142) "Aug 29 (*161) "Nov 11 (*235)
13 166 15
Ga2-25 (55) Ga2-26 Ga3-11 (70) Gb1-8 (237) Gb1-24 (253)
July 18 (199) 19 (200) Aug 2 (214) Jan 16 (381) Febr 1 (32)
DRUS (*119) *120 *134 *301 ε Equulei (*317)
*302 *303 ε Equulei (*317) DRUS (*484) ACUBENS (*135)
Jan 17 (382) 18 Febr 1 (397) July 18 (2 * 282) Aug 3 (580)
SOLSTICE 'June 22 (173) 'July 6 (187) 'Dec 20 (354) 'Jan 5 (370)
SOLSTICE 'Dec 22 (356) 'Jan 5 (370) 'June 20 (171) 'July 6 (187)
"June 7 (158) 8 (*79) "June 22 (173) "Dec 6 (*260) "Dec 22 (356)
"Dec 7 (*261) 8 (342) "Dec 22 (*276) "June 6 (*77) "June 22 (173)

All these exercises are necessary for making sure that order is preserved in all directions.

472 = 365 + 107
297 13 23 115 18
Gb1-24 (253) Gb2-12 (267) Gb3-1 Gb3-2 Gb6-26 (408) Gb7-17 (427)
Febr 1 (32) 15 (46) 11 (435) March 12 March 21 (445) April 9 (99)
ε Equulei (*317) WEEPING *354 *355   SIRRAH ADHIL (*19)
ACUBENS (*135) *149 *171 *172 8 ALCHITA (*183) SPICA (*202)
Aug 3 (580) 17 (229)     Sept 20 (263) Oct 9 (282)
"Dec 22 (356) "Jan 5 (370) *313 *314 "Febr 8 (39) 27 (58)
"June 22 (173) "July 6 (*107) *130 *131   "Aug 10 (*142) "Aug 29 (*161)
336 (= 4 * 84 = 7 * 48 = 12 * 28) 29
365