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We ought to take the opportunity to investigate the whereabouts of the other two inserted Q-sequences:

Qa8-31 Qa8-32 Qa8-33 Qa8-34 Qa8-35 Qa8-36 Qa8-37
228 229 230
Qb3-26 Qb3-27 Qb3-28 Qb3-29 Qb3-30 Qb3-31 Qb3-32
...
Qb3-31 Qb3-32 Qb3-101
Qb4-35 Qb4-36 Qb4-37 Qb4-38 Qb4-39

When I wish to assign a restored ordinal number for Qb3-101 I discover a gross mistake - because I have tabulated the number of glyphs in line Qb3 as 39 (without even a question mark), but that number is obviously much to low.

There are 32 glyphs before a destroyed area. Later in the line there are 18 more, which amounts to 50 visible glyphs. According to Barthel's picture of the line there can hardly be room for more than 1 destroyed glyph beyond Gb3-32. Therefore the number of glyphs should be 51 in line Qb3:

a1 *23? 23 b1 51 51
a2 43 66 b2 46 97
a3 41 107 b3 *51? 148
a4 *43? 150 b4 *39? 187
a5 55 205 b5 *42? 229
a6 *49? 254 b6 *37? 266
a7 41? 295 b7 *39? 305
a8 47 342 b8 32 337
a9 45 387 b9 *12? 349
sum *387? sum *349?

387 + 349 = 736 = 16 * 46, surely a good number (reminding us of Tahua).

736 / 2 = 368 days. I have used 362 days up to now. What should I do to correct it all?

Well, first of all I must revise also the number of glyphs for the rest of the lines (beyond Qb3, up to which there is no problem - I hope).

I find already line Qb4 being problematical. Barthel shows the line as destroyed at the end, with room for ca 5-6 extra glyphs, beyond those 39 which I have counted to based of Fischer's picture of the line.

On the other hand, experience from H has shown that damaged parts may have been there already before the glyphs were engraved. I therefore will keep 39 glyphs for line Qb4.

Also, the parallel texts seem to have a new text segment beginning beyond *Qb4-39:

Hb1-227 Hb1-228 Hb1-229 Hb2-1 Hb2-2 Hb2-3 Hb2-4 Hb2-5
*Hb1-49 *Hb1-50 *Hb1-51
Pb4-10 Pb4-11 Pb4-12 Pb4-13 Pb4-14 Pb4-15 Pb4-16
-
Hb2-6 Hb2-7 Hb2-8 Hb2-9 Hb2-10 Hb2-11 Hb2-12 Hb2-13
Pb4-17 Pb4-18 Pb4-19 Pb4-20 Pb4-21 Pb4-22 Pb4-23 Pb4-24
-

The text lines in Q are not as long in H and P.

Glyph line Qb5 can be regarded in a similar way. The beginning is destroyed, but we can guess it was so already before the glyphs were carved. If so, then there could anyhow have been 3 more beyond Gb5-204:

Hb3-8 Hb3-9 Hb3-10 Hb3-11 Hb3-12 Hb3-13 Hb3-14 Hb3-15 Hb3-16
Pb5-14 Pb5-15 Pb5-16 Pb5-17 Pb5-18 Pb5-19 Pb5-20 Pb5-21
...
Qb5-203 Qb5-204 Qb6-101 Qb6-102 Qb6-103

After adding 3 such lost glyhs to those which are depicted by Fischer, the number in the line would be 42. (One of them, following immediately after Qb5-204, was seen by Barthel, but must have been lost since then.)

Also the beginning of line Qb6 could be destroyed, alternatively has never been there in the damaged area - an alternative which I prefer.

Not much more need to be said, really, about the number of glyphs in the lines of side b of Q. Except that line Qb9 maybe should have 350 glyphs instead of 349. But that would not make so much sense numerically as 16 * 46.

736 + 1 = 737 = 11 * 67. It is better to have a sum of two odd numbers equalling an even number.

Before we go back to correct in the glyph dictionary pages (luckily only those of ariga erua because Q was not used so much - if at all - earlier), we should try to count days for the triplet of inserted sequences:

 
Qa8-31 (326) Qa8-32 Qa8-33 Qa8-34 Qa8-35 Qa8-36 Qa8-37
228 229 230
Qb3-26 (510) Qb3-27 Qb3-28 Qb3-29 Qb3-30 Qb3-31 Qb3-32
235 236 237
...
Qb3-31 Qb3-32 *Qb3-33 *Qb3-34
237 238
Qb4-35 (570) Qb4-36 Qb4-37 Qb4-38 Qb4-39
350 351

Redmarked days are significant. The days are nicely arranged and also the day numbers give strength to the number of glyphs in all glyph lines up to Qb4.

351 = 13 * 27. The kiore-henua combination should mean 'here the season ends'. The glyph line does not continue to day 354, a fact which may have necessitated a strong mark at Qb4-39.

4 * 39 = 156 = 12 * 13.