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Place of creation: Providence, Rhode Island: Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth: Inscriptions: Cynthia Burr was born May 1, 1770, Let Virtue Be a Guide to Thee
A needlework sampler is a piece of embroidery or cross-stitching produced as a 'specimen of achievement', [1] demonstration or a test of skill in needlework. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It often includes the alphabet, figures, motifs, decorative borders and sometimes the name of the person who embroidered it and the date.
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 ).
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 ]
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.
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 ...
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.
Inscription Location Year installed Photo Open Plaques ref Notes o Sir Patrick Abercrombie (1879–1957) "Pioneer of town and country planning lived here" Flat 1, 63 Egerton Gardens Brompton SW3 2BZ 2019 () 52364 : Sir George Alexander (1858–1919) "ACTOR MANAGER lived here" 57 Pont Street Chelsea SW1X 0BD 1951 () 271