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been a boundary monument marking the
limit of the domain of one of the tributary
Roman Kingdoms, up to which point
the ruler came on his hunting excursions.

Perhaps future excavations among
the debris may reveal an inscription
which will solve the problem.

The lower part of all four faces is covered
with the curious graffiti of camel drivers
which various visitors and the engineer
who made the maps took for Assyrian
heiroglyphs.

We took measurements of the monument
and a number of photographs but the
terrific mud which blew constantly
has probably impaired the value of
the pictures.