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The inscription reads:
'The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and said: Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.
So that they kill a third of mankind. The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand.
Above the clouds and behind the heavenly altar, Christ is depicted in his attribution as The Ancient of Days, emphasizing his divine nature, which makes him older than the world. Below the clouds, the four angels tasked with the killing of a third of the people have been released. The cavalry is innumerable; the horses have lion heads that blow fire, smoke, and sulphur, and their tails are snakes. So they kill. These monstrous heads and tails have the power to torment a third of the people.

'The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth and opened the shaft of the Abyss, and smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power to harm the people who had not been sealed by God.
The well of the abyss is presented in the centre as a stone-built well; the smoke comes out of it, and the locusts that occupy the whole picture come out of it: Following the description in the Apocalypse, the locusts have a woman's head with long hair and a crown, nails of a lion (instead of teeth), and a scorpion's tail and sting.
The sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer). (Revelation 9, 1-11).'