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1 There is room for these signs upon the rock. ~ After the sign "yy~ there is a gap of about six signs; then follow slight traces of the characters  then follows a g a P of eleven or twelve signs at the end of the line. second day of the month [Markazanash] that Arakha who called himself Nebuchadnezzar, and the men who [were his chief followers, they seized and fettered. Then I made a decree (saying): " Let that Arakha] and the men who were his chief followers be crucified in Babylon!" 89. ucabis [thakajta aha avatha avam A[rakham hya Nabukujdracara a- 90. gauba[ta ut]a martiya tya i[] 91. [ hauv Arakha u]ta [martjiyd t[yaisaiy f]rata[m]a a[n]- 92. [u]si[y]a aha(n)ta Babira[u]v [uzmayjapatiy asariyata 
 * Traces of three signs are visible at the beginning of the line, reading "JTJ y^y yy|; then comes a gap of about three signs followed by slight traces of the signs >X ^TTT TTT ^.'"'A-'/^W^i.^ > l h ere is tnen room at the end of the gap for the words hauv Arakha u]ta as conjecturally restored in the text. I