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compare DAIK / SI O 4961, Fund-Nr. 44703C/f-1 (unpub.) and notes there. Lemaire, Nouvelles (1996), pp. 121–123 (no. 203) has a similar phrase as line 1, for which Lemaire favors reading as a date without reference to a regnal year. In the memoranda on the verso of the Darius inscription (P. 13447v) one finds the appreviation P which TAD interpres as a פרס "peras dry measure". HL reads here "Ration" either seeing this as an abbreviation of either פרס or פתפ. line 2 is enigmatic. All letters except the second and third to the last letters are certain. The similar text from Lemaire, Nouvelles suggests that this should be a name but no indication of בנ is found. The letters KYP could be part of an Egyptian name kꜢp, kp (cf. פכיפ [PꜢ-kꜢp, PꜢ-kp]), or if read as (...)כס then a measurement. Lemaire's proposal כס בת מלכ sees to me to be the best solution, though its meaning "Cup. Bat of the king" (or the like) seems difficult to understand. In support, of reading בת see 14-02-112-05/? (Syene). Line three is an name, the first name is probably a bi-form of the Egyptian name אספמת/אספמט with the ellision of the מ. The second is curious. The first and third letters are more likely ח or ש, which are indistinguishable in some 5th century Phoenician hands. I had chosen, with strong reservation, to read Ḥalaḥ which is sofar only attested as a GN in NWS but is known in NA (Tallqvist, Assyrian, 83a and Prosopography NA vol. 2/1, 440–1).