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Its inscription date would be 60 years earlier than the Myazedi inscription (c. 1112/1113), one of the oldest known stone inscriptions in Burma (Myanmar). [1] [8] (The earliest known inscription of Burmese—the copper-gilt umbrella inscription of the Mahabodhi Temple in India—is dated to 1035 CE. According to a recast stone inscription from ...
Sanskrit epigraphy is the study of ancient inscriptions in Sanskrit. The inscriptions offer insight into the linguistic, cultural, and historical evolution of South Asia and its neighbors. Early inscriptions, such as those from the 1st century BCE in Ayodhya and Hathibada, are written in Brahmi script and reflect the transition to classical ...
The inscription was published by B. C. Jain in 1977. [28] It was subsequently listed by Madan Mohan Upadhyaya in his book Inscriptions of Mahakoshal. [29] The inscription is of considerable importance for the history of the Gupta Empire, because it is the last known record of the later Gupta king Budhagupta. [30]
The Inscription of King Mesha: 320–321: The Moabite Stone: Siloam inscription: 2.28: The Siloam Tunnel Inscription: 321: The Siloam Inscription: Yehimilk inscription: 2.29: The Inscription of King Yahimilk: 653–654: Yehimilk of Byblos: Kilamuwa Stela: 2.30: The Kulamuwa Inscription: 654–655: Kilamuwa of Y'dy-Sam'al: Yehawmilk Stele: 2.32 ...
The forms of stone sepulchral inscriptions differ in the Greek East and Latin West. The most common form in the East was the upright " stele " ( Greek : στήλη , a block or slab of stone), frequently ornamented with a fillet or a projecting curved moulding; in the West a slab for the closing of the grave was often used.
The oldest inscription is a version of Ashoka edicts, while the last and third inscription is of Skandagupta. The Rudradaman inscription is near the top, above the Ashoka edict. [3] It is dated to shortly after 150 CE. [1] The inscription has twenty lines, of different lengths spread over about 5.5 feet high and 11 feet wide.
Second part of the calendar inscription of Priene. The Priene calendar inscription (IK Priene 14) is an inscription in stone recovered at Priene (an ancient Greek city, in Western Turkey) that records an edict by Paullus Fabius Maximus, proconsul of the Roman province of Asia and a decree of the conventus of the province accepting the edict from 9 BC.
A large stone inscription containing texts in Nepal Bhasa and Tibetan is installed at the Swayambhu stupa complex. It records the renovation of the stupa during the years 1751-1758. [ 11 ] The epitaph on the tombstone of a Capuchin missionary named Francesco della Penna , who died and was buried in Patan in 1745, contains texts in Latin and ...