2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 ^-----------^ ^-----------^ 2030 2031 2032 2033 2034 2035 ^-----------^ 2040 2041 2042 { 2025 2020 2021 { ^-----------^ { 2050 2051 2034 { 2053 2054 2055 ^-----------^ 2053 2061 2062 2063 2064 2065 2070 2071 2020 2021 2022? 2024? } ^-----------^ } ? } 2053 2020 2082 2083 2025 2053 } 2021 2091 2092 { 2025 2094 2095 { 3000 2023 2034 { 2053 2033 3005 ^-----------^ ^-----------^ 3010 2083 3012 2024 3014 2091 2053 3021 2023 2020 3024 2024 { 2024 2025 2021 3033 { 2025 2034* ? { ^-----------^ { ^---- { { { 2053* 3021 3042 3043 { 2035 3045 ----^ 3050 2083 { 2025 2034 3054 3055 _See_ 2082 { ^-----------^ { { 2024 2020 { 2035 3063 2024 2025 ^-----------^ 2021 2031 2020 2021 2035 3045 ^-----------^ 3080 3081 2091 2093 2020 2021 ^-----------^ 14 cases of horizontal pairs; 4 cases of vertical pairs; 102 characters in all, of which 51 appear more than once, so that there are but 51 independent hieroglyphs. Here the first two lines are unchanged. In the third line we find that 2043 is the same as 2025, 2044=2020, 2045=2021, and so on, and we write the smallest number in each case. After this is done, connect like pairs by braces whenever they are consecutive, either vertical or horizontal. Take the pair 2020 and 2021 for example; 2020 occurs eight times in the tablet, viz, as 2020, 2044, 2072, 2081, 3023, 3061, 3072, 3084. In five out of the eight cases, it is followed by 2021, viz, as 2021, 2045, 2073, 3073, 3085. It is clear this is not the result of accident. The pair 2020 and 2021 means something, and when the two characters occur together they must be read together. There is no point of punctuation between them. We also learn that they are not inseparable. 2020 will make sense with 2082, 3024 and 3062. Here it looks as if the writing must be read in _lines_ horizontally. We do not know yet in which direction.