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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 ).
Pages in category "Inscriptions" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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.
Pages in category "Latin inscriptions" The following 64 pages are in this category, out of 64 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ancilla Dei;
The Cesnola Phoenician inscriptions are 28 Phoenician inscriptions from Cyprus (primarily Kition) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Cesnola Collection. They were discovered by Luigi Palma di Cesnola during his tenure as the United States Consul to Cyprus from 1865 to 1871. [ 1 ]
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.
A Dressel 20 amphora with examples of tituli picti and potters' stamps found at Monte Testaccio. A titulus pictus is an ancient Roman commercial inscription made on the surface of certain artefacts, [1] [2] [3] usually the neck of an amphora. [4] [5] [6] Typically, these inscriptions were made in red or black paint.
His article "The Serabit Inscriptions: II. The Decipherment and Significance of the Inscriptions" provides an early detailed study of the inscriptions and some dozen black and white photographs, hand-drawings and analysis of the previously published inscriptions, #346, 349, 350–354, and three new inscriptions, #355–368.