At lunch-time today a third tombstone started to be uncovered here. In the area of the middle flour mill, where one tombstone was discovered yesterday, a large mill-stone was uncovered today. In the bank of the flour mill two women's tombstones were discovered yesterday. These bore inscriptions. Work on decipherment continues.
Grace is a lie and beauty is vanity.
This second tombstone is covered with geometric ornaments including an inscription on one side. The procedure of cleaning the lichen with the special chemicals brought from Jerusalem has commenced with promising first results. Professor Beit-Arie went to Eghegis on Sunday morning. We await the results of his analysis of the script. M, Stone arranged in Yerevan for a geologist to be sent to the site to analyze the stones.