Kheti quickly concludes the runes aren’t magic. He also notes that from the base of the pillar, they are nearly 25 feet up. Were the cistern full, the dial would sit just above the water level. Still, despite being faded and high up, he is able to examine them a bit. He quickly concludes the characters are Ancient Osiriani which no one in the party knows, although Kheti knows modern Osiriani. There are six different symbols circumnavigating the pillar, he is pretty sure he can spot a few that he recalls seeing in the text written on the trim below the ceilings of the other rooms. He suspects these each represent individual ideas, rather than joining to form a sentence. Dalnu agrees with Kheti that they look similar, but without the grounding in Osiriani and its alphabet, she is unable to make any other conclusions.