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(o 1') [... Night of] the 5th, beginning of the ni[ght, ...]

(o 2') [... in] the morning, very overcast; at noon, rain D[UL ...] ... [...]

(o 3') [Night of the 9th, beginn]ing of the night, the moon was 4 cubits below θ Leonis; first part of the night, Mercury was 4 cubits above α Tauri. The 9th, [... Night of the 11th, beginning of the night, the moon was] 1 2/3 cubits [behind γ Virginis.]

(o 4') Night of the 12th, beginning of the night, the moon was 2 1/2 cubits behind α Virginis. Night of the 13th, all night very overcast, rain ... [... Night of the 14th,]

(o 5') moonrise to sunset: 2° 30'; clouds, I did not watch; beginning of the night, clouds crossed the sky, lightning flashed, slow thunder, large rain, PISAN DIB. The 1[4th, ...]

(o 6') The 15th, the south wind blew. Night of the 16th, last part of the night, the moon was 3 cubits behind θ Ophiuchi, the moon being 2 cubits low to the south [... Night of the 19th,]

(o 7') last part of the night, the moon was 4 1/2 cubits below β Capricorni, the moon having passed a little to the east. The 20th, in the morning, very overcast, rain shower. Night of the 21st, last part of the ni[ght, ... Night of the 23rd, last part of the night, the moon] stood [... in front of Saturn]

(o 8') to the west. Night of the 28th, all night very overcast; last part of the night, Mars was 2 fingers above γ Capricorni, Mars being 1 finger [back] to the west [...]

(o 9') from the 1st to the 9th, 5 sūtu 3 qa; the 10th (and) 11th, 5 sūtu; from the 12th to the end of the month, 4 sūtu4 1/2 qa; dates, until [...]

(o 10') wool, 1 mina 15 shekels. At that time, Jupiter was in Leo; Venus, in the beginning of the month, was in Pisces; on the 7th, Venus reached Aries [...]

(o 11') Saturn was in Aquarius; on the 12th, Saturn reached Pisces; Mars was in Capricorn. That month, the river level, until the 16th, rose 1 1/2 cubits, total: 8 was the ⸢na (gauge)⸣ [...]

(o 12') [total:] 5 was the na (gauge); until the end of the month, it receded 1/2 cubit, total: 8 was the na (gauge). That month, the 17th, the people of Uruk [...]

(o 13') [of Baby]lonia from the camp of the king to Seleucia which is on the Tigris [...]

(o 14') [Month II, the 1st (of which followed the 30th of the preceding month),] sunset to moonset: 23+[x°]; it was bright, earthshine, measured; it could be seen whighle (the sun) stood there; it was high to the sun. Around the 1st, Mercury’s [last appearance] in the west in the end of Taurus [...]

(o 15') [...] ...; last part of the night, very overcast. The 2nd, all day very overcast; in the afternoon, rain DUL, thunder [...]

(o 16') [...] having passed to the east. Night of the 5th, beginning of the night, the moon was [...] above Ju[piter ...]

(o 17') [...] threw?. Night [...]

(l.e. 1) [... Ar]saces, king of kings.