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The house was already in ruins by about 1890. By that time the inscription, broken in two, had been repurposed as the first step of the entrance into a garden built in the ruins of that house, which led to the wear of the letters in the middle. The inscription was removed from there to the Gradski muzej in Bakar in 1956.
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.
Of the Mathura inscriptions, the most significant is the Mora Well Inscription. [8] In a manner similar to the Hathibada inscription, the Mora well inscription is a dedicatory inscription and is linked to the cult of the Vrishni heroes: it mentions a stone shrine (temple), pratima (murti, images) and calls the five Vrishnis as bhagavatam.
Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI) is a web-based epigraphic database of ancient Attic vase inscriptions maintained by the AVI project at the University of Basel. It is an extension of Henry R. Immerwahr's CAVI ( Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions ).
Some of the inscriptions, which imitate the lettering of Filocalus, make special and laudatory mention of the pope who had done so much for the catacombs. Among these are the inscriptions of Pope Vigilius (537-55), a restorer animated by the spirit of Damasus. Some of his inscriptions are preserved in the Lateran Museum. These inscriptions as a ...
Violet Pritchard published English Medieval Graffiti in 1967, the result of research undertaken predominantly in churches in and around Cambridge. [4] The book was the first full-length work in English to be written on church graffiti, and became the key study for scholars and enthusiasts in the following decades.
Ψαμάτιχος) and Amasis II (Greek: Ἄμασις), [4] which is on the outside of the left shin of Colossus 1 (furthest left looking at the temple from the outside); directly opposite it on the outside of the right shin of Colossus 2 are four of the Phoenician inscriptions (CIS I 112 a–d). The Greek and Phoenician texts face each other.
[2] [3] About 3 hundred years after the first inscription, the Phoenician, was engraved, the base was turned upside down and the second inscription, in Greek, was engraved; [1] [3] the inscriptions have no connection and are not a bilingual inscription. [4] Eventually, it was used as a press. [5]