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Inscriptions cover a range of topics from poems, advertisements, political statements, to greetings. There are two forms of graffiti: painted inscriptions (usually public notices) and inscribed inscriptions (spontaneous messages). Many forms of graffiti also give insight to what certain locations acted as during the Roman Empire.
CIL 4.5296 (or CLE 950) [a] is a poem found graffitied on the wall of a hallway in Pompeii.Discovered in 1888, it is one of the longest and most elaborate surviving graffiti texts from the town, and may be the only known love poem from one woman to another from the Latin world.
inscription: in memory of the / women of our southland / 1861 - 1865 / let this mute but eloquent / structure speak to generations / to come, of a generation of / the past. LET IT REPEAT / PERPETUALLY THE IMPERISHABLE / STORY OF OUR WOMEN OF THE 60'S. / THOSE NOBLE WOMEN WHO / SACRIFICED THEIR ALL / UPON THEIR COUNTRY'S ALTAR.
Inscriptions in undeciphered writing systems (1 C, 15 P) Inscriptions of disputed origin (2 C, 22 P) R. Regnal lists (2 C, 27 P) Inscribed rocks (1 C, 9 P) S. Steles ...
The work was published in five parts serially from 1892 to 1916, with numerous reprints. Supporting material and notes are all written in Latin. Inscriptions are organized within chapters (capita, singular caput) by topic, such as funerary inscriptions, or inscriptions pertaining to collegia. Each inscription has an identifying number.
Epigraphy (from Ancient Greek ἐπιγραφή (epigraphḗ) 'inscription') is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the writing and the writers.
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Other terms often used for printed engravings are copper engraving, copper-plate engraving or line engraving. Steel engraving is the same technique, on steel or steel-faced plates, and was mostly used for banknotes, illustrations for books, magazines and reproductive prints, letterheads and similar uses from about 1790 to the early 20th century, when the technique became less popular, except ...