Inscriptions Inscriptions An abecedarium is an inscription consisting of the letters of the alphabet in order. Typically, abecedaria are practice exercises. ...more on Wikipedia about "Abecedarium"
The Behistun Inscription (also Bisitun or Bisutun, بیستون in modern Persian) is to cuneiform what the Rosetta Stone is to Egyptian hieroglyphs: the document most crucial in the decipherment of a previously lost script. It is located in the Kermanshah Province of Iran. ...more on Wikipedia about "Behistun Inscription"
The Bitola inscription is an inscription made by order of Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Vladislav in 1015 or 1016 in connection with the fortification of the Bitola fortress. The inscription was found in 1956 in Bitola, Republic of Macedonia and is stored at the Bitola Historical Museum. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bitola inscription"
A chronogram is a sentence or inscription in which specific letters, interpreted as numerals, stand for a particular date when rearranged. The word, meaning "time writing," derives from the Greek words chronos ("time") and gramma ("letter"). Longer chronograms are referred to as chronosticha, if they are a hexameter, and chronodisticha if they are a distich. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chronogram"
The monument, also known as the Chalouf stele, testified the construction of the forerunner of the Suez Canal by the Persians. ...more on Wikipedia about "Darius the Great's Suez Inscriptions"
The DUENOS Inscription was found on a vase on Quirinal Hill in Rome, Italy. It is inscribed with one of the earliest known Old Latin texts, dating from circa the 6th century BC. It is difficult to translate, as there are very few spaces and some letters are hard to distinguish, particularly since they are in Old Latin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Duenos inscription"
An epitaph (literally: "on the grave" in ancient Greek) is text honoring the dead, most commonly inscribed on a tombstone or plaque. Traditionally an epitaph is in verse, but there are exceptions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Epitaph"
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Ex libris ( Latin: from books) is a phrase often used in an ownership inscription or a bookplate, usually found on the inside of a book cover or on one of the first few pages. It indicates ownership, and is usually followed by a name in the genitive case, i.e. from the books of ... or from the library of .... It may also be written as e libris. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ex libris"
A geoglyph is a drawing on the ground, or a large motif, (generally greater than 4 metres) or design produced on the ground, either by arranging clasts (stones, stone fragments, gravel or earth) to create a positive geoglyph (stone arrangement/alignment, petroform, earth mound) or by removing patinated clasts to expose unpatinated ground (negative geoglyph). ...more on Wikipedia about "Geoglyph"
See http://home.student.uva.nl/rogier.visser/ac/nabatean.html for pictures (without transcriptions or translations) of the inscriptions marked # in the table. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of the Arabic alphabet"
Inscriptions are words or letters written, engraved, painted, or otherwise traced on a surface and can appear in contexts both small and monumental. Coin texts and monumental carvings on buildings are both included by historians as types of inscriptions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Inscription"
A Greek hagiographical text, which has, however, undergone alterations, and a Greek inscription of the 2nd century have made known to us a certain Abercius, Bishop of Hieropolis, in Phrygia, who, about the middle of the century in question, left his episcopal city and visited Rome. ...more on Wikipedia about "Inscription of Abercius"
The James Ossuary is a sepulchral urn for containing bones, which was found in Israel in 2002 and was claimed to have been the ossuary of James, the brother of Jesus. Its provenance is now in serious doubt and it is considered a modern forgery. Its discovery was followed in January 2003 by another contentious archaeological "find" soon connected with Oded Golan, the so-called "Jehoash Inscription" (see below). ...more on Wikipedia about "James Ossuary"
The Käymäjärvi Inscriptions refers to inscriptions on a stone approximately 52.5 cm high and 105 cm wide, engraved with some variety of Runic alphabet. The stone is today so degraded, it is no longer possible to compare it with other scripts such as Orkhon script. It is located near Lake Käymäjärvi, about 26 km north-east of Payala parish, Northern Sweden. ...more on Wikipedia about "Käymäjärvi Inscriptions"
The Laguna Copperplate inscription, found 1989 in Laguna de Bay, in the metroplex of Manila, Philippines, has inscribed on it a date of Saka era 822, corresponding to April 21st, 900CE according to Vedic astronomy, containing words from Sanskrit, old Javanese, old Malay and old Tagalog, releasing its bearer, Namwaran, from a debt in gold. This document rests in the National Museum of the Philippines. ...more on Wikipedia about "Laguna Copperplate Inscription"
The Lapis Satricanus, or, "stone of Satricum", was a yellow stone found in the ruins of the ancient Satricum, near Borgo Montello ( ), a village of southern Lazio, dated late 6th century to early 5th century BC. It reads: ...more on Wikipedia about "Lapis Satricanus"
The Mesha Stele (popularized in the 19th century as the "Moabite Stone") is a black basalt stone, bearing an inscription by the 9th century BC Moabite King Mesha, discovered in 1868. The inscription of 34 lines, the most extensive inscription ever recovered from ancient Palestine, was written in Hebrew-Phoenician characters. It was set up by Mesha, about 850 BC, as a record and memorial of his victories in his revolt against Israel, which he undertook after the death of his overlord, Ahab. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mesha Stele"
A mint mark is an inscription on a coin indicating the mint at which the coin was produced. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mint mark"
A Monumental Inscription is an inscription, typically carved in stone, on a grave marker or memorial plaque. ...more on Wikipedia about "Monumental inscription"
The Nazareth Inscription is a 24" x 15" marble tablet with a 14-line "Edict of Caesar" proscribing capital punishment for tomb-breakers, allegedly acquired by the Frohner Collection in 1878 from Nazareth. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nazareth Inscription"
The Orkhon script is the earliest known Turkic alphabet. The script was discovered in a 1889 expedition to the Orkhon Valley monuments in Mongolia, which date from the early 8th century. It is thought that the script was inspired by non-cursive Sogdian. It was later used by the Uyghur Empire; a "Yenisei" variant is known from 9th-century Kirghiz inscriptions, and it has likely cousins in the Talas Valley of Turkestan and perhaps the Hungarian Szekler script of the 16th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Orkhon script"
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Quipu or khipu were recording devices used in the Inca Empire and its predecessor societies in the Andean region. A quipu usually consists of colored spun and plied thread from llama or alpaca hair or cotton cords with numeric and other values encoded by knots in a base 10 positional system. Quipus may have just a few strands, but some have up to 2,000 strands. ...more on Wikipedia about "Quipu"
The Rosetta Stone is a dark grey-pinkish granite stone (often incorrectly identified as basalt) with writing on it in two languages, Egyptian and Greek, using three scripts, Hieroglyphic, Demotic Egyptian and Greek. Because Greek was well known, the stone was the key to deciphering the hieroglyphs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rosetta Stone"
(Shugborough House inscription) The Shepherd's Monument carries a relief that shows a woman watching three shepherds pointing to a tomb. On the tomb is depicted the Latin text " Et in arcadia ego" ("I am also in Arcadia" or "I am even in Arcadia"). The relief is based on a painting by the French artist Nicholas Poussin, known itself as Et in Arcadia ego, but the relief has a number of modifications — most noticeably that it is reversed horizontally. Other differences include a change in which letter of the tomb a shepherd is pointing at and the addition of an extra sarcophagus to the scene. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shugborough House inscription"
The Siloam inscription or Silwan inscription is a passage of inscribed text in the Hezekiah tunnel that feeds water to the Pool of Siloam in East Jerusalem, among the oldest extant record of the kind written in Hebrew. The passage reads: ...more on Wikipedia about "Siloam inscription"
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