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According to Marina, the Esperanto inside the ring is:

ĈASANTE LA BONEGECON, MULTE DA ATLETOJ PLENUMADI, DEK OBLIGANTE LA SPIRITOJN. LA KOROJ SORAS.
LA　OLIMPIISTAJ MUSKOLOJ DEVAS LINIIĜI PRESKAŬ PERFEKTE. KIA LERTO! KIA FORTECO! ESTAS MIRINDA!
DUM LA FERMANTAJ CERIMONIOJ ĈIUJ ATLETOJ PARTOPRENAS LA FIERON DE ĈAMPIONOJ. ILI RAPIDIĜIS, ALTIĜIS, FORTIĜIS.

EDIT: Marina made three corrections.
EDIT 2: She confirmed PERFEKTE was followed by a period.

[Canzonett]

OK. My Esperanto is still rotten, so I don't understand that much, but there's something about the Olympic Games' Closing Ceremony. And something that sounds like a reference to the "citius, altius, fortius" motto.

[unagi]

A translation:

Chasing the greatness, a lot of athletes (plenumadi), ten multiplying the spirits. The hearts fly high.
The olympic mustles must (liniiĝi) almost perfect, what a skill! What a strength! It's wonderful!
During the closing ceremonies all athletes share the pride of champions. They got fast, high, strong.

[jasper]

Hooray! What a great effort to make this recovery!

"plenumadi" looks something like to fulfill?

mustles is muscles- typo? and "liniiĝi" I think is supposed to be become into line or be in line or I think they meant to align.

[unagi]

Thank you very much, jasper, I agree with you about the two Esperanto words.

Well, mustle is my typo.

Marina says the inside color is yellow, and that the external and internal diameters are about 41 and 26 cm.

[danteIL]

This is great!

Thanks, too, for coordinating all of this across two communities and 3 or more languages, unagi!

[ariock]

[unagi]

A few photos are added to show the inside of the ring is yellow. There's another additional photo in argfan's layout.

Thank you very much for all your responses.
I am very glad to see people in the Noriko's forum fully enjoyed a FtLR mystery, almost for the first time - I think discussion was much activated by the existence of the thread which was allowed to discuss secrets against TheO.

Ariock's first deduction was right, and when I moved from one of his candidtae to another I saw a direction board of Gallery Saka, but I thought it's a name of a saka(=slope), and didn't look for the gallery.

Gallery Saka is very close to the apex of Eli's triangle, but not so close to the "peak" he defined as the furthest point from the entrance, according to my calculation (Triangle inequality tells the peak, center and entrance of a labyrinth should be on a straight line).

Just before seeing Eli's email, I had been investigating the voicemail with an Armenian dictionary in a library. I'm still interested in its accurate translation, or its transcription in Armenian, although I fully enjoyed challenging a language new to me!

[unagi]

Double post.

A rough translation for Marina's explanation:
(See photos)(This includes some META things)(I skipped some sentences):

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I took the ring from Gallery Saka at Kagurazaka. I am sorry for my delay in letting you know my pickup because of lack of internet connection. As I left home early, I didn't recognize the proposal for the rendezvou. As there was an urgent call, I left Kagurazaka immediately. I apologize to QED and Lunch for their going all this way.

Around 10:55 I arrived at the door of the gallery, and its owner came when I am waiting for its opening.
I asked him if he exhibited a metal ring, and he answered yes.
The ring was exhibited ordinarily at the innermost of the gallery.
He said it had arrived some while ago and had been exhibited for about a week.
I was not allowed to take photos of other exhibitions, I could take only the photos I sent.

When I told him the password he asked me "Wanna take this away?", and he packaged the ring back for me as it had been sent.
The sender's sticker was still attached on the cardboard box, but he took it off, saying "Because it would break your dream."

At that time I had no idea who's coming when, and I hesitated to wait at the gallery, I asked the owner a message, took a photo of the owner with the box in front of the gallery, and left the gallery about 11:20.
He said "say hello to the staff", but I had no idea as I'm an ordinary people

Then there was an urgent call and some troubles disabled me to have internet connection for a while. I'm sorry for all the fuss.

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[danteIL]

Looking at the pics, I agree that the spacing of the words seems important. My speculation is that we'll take the sections indicated by something along the lines of Sapagoo's diagram.

I tried to make a 'panorama' view of the ring interior. Others can perhaps do a better job...