We have learnt how important structure is for understanding not only where subsequences of glyphs begin and end but also for deciding if texts are parallel or not.

Only for Keiti, however, have we so far made any real progress in defining the structure of the total text of the tablet. And even in this text there are gaps to fill in. Luckily I have now found one more clue in Eb7-35:

This glyph is located as the 1st glyph among those 48 which end side b. In the same way as I consider the sequence Ea9-25--Eb2-4 important, I consider these 48 glyphs ending side b important. Therefore I have listed them too, preliminary sorted into 20 + 28 glyphs.

And then it comes to my mind that 48 is a good number, twice 24. Why then 58 for the sequence Ea9-25--Eb2-4? Why not 48 there too? On side a there are 99 glyphs in what I call partition 2 and on side b there are 99 glyphs in my partition 6, so why not twice 48 too?

58 - 48 = 10. If I subtract the last 10 glyphs of those 58 then I get 48 once more. I therefore think that we should consider these last 10 glyphs as a separate part. But still they do belong to those 58, otherwise the pattern for 58 would break down.

58 = 30 (sun) + 28 (moon). 48 = 20 (man) + 28 (moon)?

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