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Recto: 1. [...] the Nile of Egypt, and waters change (in color), and 2. [app]les are good, and truffles crack, and the East wind blows 3. [and] the time of the yellow gall enters, and (lasts) [for] ty- 4. two nights. On the twenty-fourth of it 5. [the d]ay is fourteen hours and the night ten hours 6. and durra and millet are sown in Yamam and in the land of Ma[..] (Tihama ?). 7. [and the land] of the Nubians. And on the twenty-ninth of it 8. the Goat rises by God''s permission from all[ 9. [and........] is high and remains until the ris[e of the Sting of the Scorpion] 10. [and on] the twenty-ninth [Aldebaran] rises 11. ... (Della Vida)

Verso: 1. ...................................... 2. [...].............................[...] 3. [....] ... to hunt and to.....[......] 4. [to eat] meat and to drink honey. 5. [Hazir]an. Thirty days. Its symbol is dal, i.e. four, 6. [and] it is called in Persian Adarbihisht Mah and in Coptic 7. [Bu]ne. Its zodiacal sign is the Twins. On the eleventh of it 8. the "Haq''a" rises and the Sting of the Scorpion disappears, and it is 9. [the long]est day and the shortest night in the year because 10. [the d]ay becomes fifteen hours and the night 11. [n]ine hours, and it is the birthday of John [the Baptist] (Della Vida)