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Han (diminutive for Henri or Henricus) van Meegeren was born 10 October 1889, [2] the third of five children of Augusta Louisa Henrietta Camps and Hendrikus Johannes van Meegeren, a French and history teacher at the Kweekschool (training college for schoolteachers) in the provincial city of Deventer.
The Museiliha inscription is a first-century AD Roman boundary marker that was first documented by French orientalist Ernest Renan. Inscribed in Latin , the stone records a boundary set between the citizens of Caesarea ad Libanum (modern Arqa) and Gigarta (possibly present-day Gharzouz, Zgharta , or Hannouch), hinting at a border dispute.
Sabaic is the best attested language in South Arabian inscriptions, named after the Kingdom of Saba, and is documented over a millennium. [4] In the linguistic history of this region, there are three main phases of the evolution of the language: Late Sabaic (10th–2nd centuries BC), Middle Sabaic (2nd century BC–mid-4th century AD), and Late Sabaic (mid-4th century AD–eve of Islam). [16]
The second horn bore an Elder Futhark inscription in Proto-Norse which is of great value for Germanic linguistics. Both horns were once the same length, [ dubious – discuss ] but a segment of the narrow end of the second (shorter) horn, which was missing when it was found (1734), had already been plowed up and recovered prior to 1639.
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.
Below this and to the left, but overlapping it slightly, is a smaller, more lightly incised inscription in Latin, reading: PATERN[--] COLI AVI FICIT ARTOGNOU. This seems to have been repeated lower down and to the right; only the letters COL[.] and FICIT, on two lines, can be seen on the fragment. This repetition, the overlap with the ...
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 ...
Runic inscription on the Eggja stone (ca. 600–700 c.e) from Sogndal, Norway. The Eggja stone (also known as the Eggum or Eggjum stone), listed as N KJ101 in the Rundata catalog, is a grave stone with a runic inscription that was ploughed up in 1917 on the farm Eggja [1] in Sogndal, Nordre Bergenhus amt (now in Vestland county), Norway.