Nope!

He spends a bit more time trying to think of tests to run, and then shrugs. "It's doing something, probably something very specific, but I can't tell what just from the magical signature effects - maybe if I'd seen the same thing before... It might be related to the dragon in some way but that doesn't help figure out what it is. Hmm. Are there experts you can hire to study spells for you and tell you if they recognize them? Probably not worth it, but..." 

"There are, yeah. If it's safe to move I can take it back to Sothis and get it assessed..." He frowns, thinking.

"If I had to guess now - and we haven't seen the fourth throne room yet - I'm guessing we're going to come out of here with about forty thousand gold in artifacts of one kind or another. It'll take a year to sell at that price, though, if you're in a hurry we maybe get twenty-five. Is Yfandes going in with you on the resurrection -"

"Going in with me?" he says blankly.

"Should I be counting her share of our salvage towards your savings towards that or is she going to want to spend her share on other things."

Yfandes is listening through his ears. :No, no, we're pooling it. What would I buy, anyway, I'm a horse: 

"Necklaces work fine for horses, and headpieces and armor need adjustments that add less than ten percent to purchase price, and boots you gotta get made to order but I know a guy. - I think you should help Van with his soulmate, I kinda want to help Van with his soulmate and I've known him for like a week. But once you've done that you should absolutely be demanding your share."

:...Are there intelligent magic horses in this world such that this question has come up before?: 

"- we have got to take the two of you to Absalom. There are totally intelligent magical horses, and unicorns, and pegasi, and centaurs, just mostly not in Osirion because the climate's terrible for them."

:I have to say, Companions are durable but I'm not a huge fan of this climate either: 

"Humans are way better than almost everything else at cooling ourselves down so Osirion's mostly human. Absalom is much less like that."

"Sixty four percent human," says Mahdi.

"Aktun is only ten percent human and only thirty percent humanoids of any kind."

"No one ever said it didn't have any selling points."

"I'm really curious to see it." He says it a bit wistfully. 

"Anyway. If we're in a hurry selling your cut with Yfandes is ten thousand, if we're not in a hurry it's sixteen thousand. Either way that's not enough but - hmmm, if I spend six months in Sothis selling things off slowly, and you pave roads in Taldor, that'd probably get you there."

"Let's check the last throne room before we start planning how to sell stuff. Or are you thinking we should avoid the last throne room."

"No, I think we should definitely check it out."

"Six months paving roads in Taldor sounds miserable."

"Consider it metonymy for - refreshing peoples' spell slots, making his kinda artifacts, experimenting with me on whether we can combine artifact techniques -"

Sigh. "I am half-expecting that next time I check in, my King is going to be strictly ordering me to come home and explain myself, and - I don't know what I'd even tell him for why I want to spend six months metonymically paving roads. Also we don't even know for sure that it'll work." 

:Do they give you your gold back if it doesn't?: 

"No. It's - a donation to the church, for the trouble of a ninth-circle caster, that part's about a thousand gold - and then a large diamond, consumed by casting the spell. They're scarce, they can only be mined here and in the Elemental Plane of Earth and neither one's infinite, and the going price right now is about twenty five thousand."

"Do you have to go back, if your King says so?"

"Y...es? That's how it works, he's King?"