Unfortunately I can’t name the figures as constellations either. There’s evidence of transmission ideas from the Late Helladic period to Classical Greece, in names of Gods found in Linear B tablets, but I’m not sure if the same can be said for Linear A. One possible explanation for the change from Linear A to B might be Mycenaean conquestion of Crete, in which case it’s possible that Minoan beliefs have been lost. However the precise nature of Linear A is up for a lot of debate. To be honest I can’t even say with much certainty that the fresco is astronomical, so identifying the figures would be pure speculation on my part.

Even if I could show that the fresco was a calendar, this would not help prove the case that Delphinus was recognised and associated with Apollo in the eighth or seventh century BC. The favoured explanation for Apollo is that the cult rose in the Greek Dark Ages. This is after the collapse of the Bronze Age palace systems.

The reason I like the Blomberg’s theory of Phaenomena transmitting this knowledge is that does tackle the problem of fairly complex astronomy being passed on. The difficulty I have is you have to accept Aratus writing a poem with an intentional precision of +/-2.5 degrees. This gives the best results, but there’s not yet a strong justification for arguing that precision is important beyond the fact that it gives good results. If astronomical methods used Greece are found to have this precision then the Blombergs will have a very strong case.

Adding further problems to my claims, the next paper I want to work on will probably torpedo the idea of mythological accretion as inadequate for even vague dating. So the earliest I can place Delphinus at the moment with certainty is the mid 5th century BC.

Sorry if this isn’t much help.