- (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- (2) . . . . . taxed with (?) 2 . . . . .
- (3) . . . . . thou saidst: “Thou beatest (?) it because (?) . . . the 20 . . . [13]
- (4) . . . . . because (?) . . . which is here with me, because, he said, the . . .
- (5) . . . . . (drag, cut?), the whole of the stone, he said, bec[ause] . . .
- (6) . . . . . bringing the 20 . . .
for
r-f, as frequently elsewhere.
This is hardly satisfactory, and I cannot see how we could have got a fragment of a letter telling us less than this. It is quite likely that it was thrown down from the quarry work above.
It is tempting to read, in the word
qnqn, the pounding process by which the trench was made.