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An edition in Latin of the Almagestum in 1515. The Almagest (/ ˈ æ l m ə dʒ ɛ s t / AL-mə-jest) is a 2nd-century mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths, written by Claudius Ptolemy (c. AD 100 – c. 170) in Koine Greek. [1]
Xinxin Ming (alternate spellings Xin Xin Ming or Xinxinming) (Chinese: 信心銘; Pīnyīn: Xìnxīn Míng; Wade–Giles: Hsin Hsin Ming; Rōmaji: Shinjinmei), meaning literally: "Faith-Mind Inscription", is a poem attributed to the Third Chinese Chán Patriarch Jianzhi Sengcan (Chinese: 鑑智僧璨; Pīnyīn: Jiànzhì Sēngcàn; Wade–Giles: Chien-chih Seng-ts'an; Romaji: Kanchi Sōsan ...
The Quintus Marcius trilingual inscription is a Latin-Greek-Punic trilingual inscription on a stone object found in 1899 in Henchir-Alouin, near Uthina, in the outskirts of Tunis, Tunisia. [1] The Phoenician script is considered to be between the Punic and the Neo-Punic phases, between the fall of Carthage and the beginning of the Christian era.
The Batutulis inscription is an ancient Sunda Kingdom inscription dated 1533, located at Batutulis village, South Bogor, West Java. Batutulis inscription is located in the ancient site of the capital Pakuan Pajajaran , Batutulis means 'inscribed stone', it is this stone, still in situ , which gave name to the village. [ 1 ]
The Hadad-yith'i bilingual inscription, also known as the Tell el Fakhariya Bilingual Inscription is a bilingual inscription found on a Neo-Assyrian statue of Adad-it'i/Hadd-yith'i, the king of Guzana and Sikan, which was discovered at Tell Fekheriye in Syria in the late 1970s.
The inscription mentions no religion besides Christianity, which researchers said is unusual. Up until the 5th century, these kind of amulets "always contain a mixture of different faiths," such ...
The KNMY inscription (KAI 79 or CIS I 3785) is an inscription in the Punic language from Carthage that is believed to record a so-called "molk" child sacrifice. [1] The text is inscribed on a 55 cm high stela that was discovered in 1922.
The inscription is the third oldest dated rock document of Islamic inscriptions. Its content appears similar to that of the Inscription of Zuhair (Naqsh Zuhair), which was discovered at the Al-Ula Governorate in Al-Madinah Province, Saudi Arabia, in which the writer documented the date of death of the Caliph Umar ibn Al-Khattab.