The dedicatory inscription in the fresco by Melozzo da Forlì in the Vatican Palace records: " You gave your city temples, streets, squares, fortifications, bridges and restored the Acqua Vergine as far as the Trevi ..." In addition to restoring the aqueduct that provided Rome an alternative to the river water that had made the city famously unhealthy, he restored or rebuilt over 30 of Rome's dilapidated churches, among them San Vitale ( 1475 ) and Santa Maria del Popolo, and added seven new ones.

Although he was primarily associated with Mercury, Visucius was also sometimes linked to the Roman god Mars, as a dedicatory inscription to " Mars Visucius " and Visucia, Visicius ' female counterpart, was found in Gaul.

The gens Iulia had gentilician cults at Bovillae where a dedicatory inscription to Vediove has been found in 1826 on an ara.

Other buildings include a temple dedicated to Caesar ; a hippodrome rebuilt in the 2nd century as a more conventional theater ; the Tiberieum, which has a limestone block with a dedicatory inscription.

The fort of Cilurnum along Hadrian's Wall was dedicated to the goddess Disciplina, as witnessed by an extant dedicatory inscription on a stone altar found in 1978.

The given name " Esunertus " (" strength of Esus ") occurs at least once as an epithet of Mercury on a dedicatory inscription.

Above the figures is a dedicatory inscription and below them in very low relief is bird, of a raven.

He offered to pay for construction of the Temple of Athena to designs of the noted architect Pytheos, if it would be dedicated by him, which it was, in 323 BCE ; the dedicatory inscription is in the British Museum.

The later village lay at the foot of the hill on the eastern edge of the high-road, and its curia, with a dedicatory inscription to M. Aurelius by the Senatus Fidenatium, was excavated in 1889.

A dedicatory inscription from Smyrna describes a 1st – 2nd century sanctuary to " God Himself " as the most exalted of a group of six deities, including clothed statues of Plouton Helios and Koure Selene, " Pluto the Sun " and " Kore the Moon.

As a medieval example for the same technique he goes on to cite the Prüfening dedicatory inscription.

* A Buddhist reliquary found in Bajaur bears a dedicatory inscription referring to " the 14th day of the month of Kārttika " of a certain year in the reign of " Mahārāja Minadra " (" Great King Menander "):

Above the main cornice rises a high, weighty 4. 40m high attic on which is a central tablet bearing the dedicatory inscription.

The modern 2 ‑ lane road, the SS 3 Flaminia, still uses Vespasian's tunnel, the emperor's dedicatory inscription still in place ; remnants of the earlier tunnel can also be seen.

The dedicatory inscription records the Basilica as the accomplishment of a vow by Alexandre Legentil and Hubert Rohault de Fleury, ratified by Joseph-Hippolyte Guibert, Archbishop of Paris.

She appears in numerous literary sources, including an official dedicatory inscription at Pergamon.

The dedicatory inscription under the Parshvanath image at Siddhachalam

The spandrels usually depicted flying Victories, while the attic was often inscribed with a dedicatory inscription naming and praising the triumphator.

The high medieval Prüfening dedicatory inscription, composed in Latin and stamped in Roman square capitals

From the fact that no mention whatever is made of this alleged miracle until a few hundred years later, not even by Sixtus III in his eight-line dedicatory inscription ... it would seem that the legend has no historical basis.

The dedicatory inscription on the triumphal arch, Sixtus Episcopus plebi Dei, ( Sixtus the bishop to the people of God ) is an indication of that Pope's role in the construction.

The two gods are mentioned together in a dedicatory inscription found in the ruins of the temple of Hercules at Lanuvium, whose cult was ancient and second in importance only to that of Juno Sospita.

Indeed there is a statue of the 6th century BC in the Cairo Museum, which normally would be taken as portraying Isis with her child Horus on her knee and which in every detail of iconography follows normal Egyptian conventions, but the dedicatory inscription reads: " Gersaphon, son of Azor, son of Slrt, man of Lydda, for his Lady, for Astarte.

A dedicatory inscription is carved into the east and west flanks of the pyramid, so as to be visible from both sides.

A dedicatory plaque identifies the structure as " Municipal Stadium ," but it has been called Grainger Stadium since it was first built.

A dedicatory plaque identifies the structure as " Municipal Stadium ," but it has been called Grainger Stadium since it was first built.

In 1992 one commentator who claimed to be able to contact Nostradamus under hypnosis even had him ' interpreting ' his own verse X. 6 ( a prediction specifically about floods in southern France around the city of Nîmes and people taking refuge in its collosse, or Colosseum, a Roman amphitheatre now known as the Arènes ) as a prediction of an undated attack on the Pentagon, despite the historical seer's clear statement in his dedicatory letter to King Henri II that his prophecies were about Europe, North Africa and part of Asia Minor.

The statues were dedicated on 9 January 2005, and at one of the dedicatory events the author Elmer Kelton was the guest speaker.

Bandello writes that the dedicatory prefaces to the nobility or to worthy persons are useful to him as a shield in case someone becomes offended by one of the stories and is tempted to attack him ( part 2, story 32 ).

Around the canopy, below its cornice, is a dedicatory legend split into four parts, one for each side.

The dedications are significant: one is to Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Duke of Sessa, and in the dedicatory preface Wert thanks him for the opportunity to lead his choir.

In one of the Spanish language dedication sessions at the dedication of the San Diego California Temple, Packer read the dedicatory prayer.

Inscriptions offer evidence on the following Roman monuments: an aqueduct constructed by Hadrian and restored by Alexander Severus bears a dedicatory inscription at Arapaj, a short distance from Durazzo: ( Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum III, 1-709 ); the Roman temple of Minerva ; the Temple of Diana ( CIL III, 1-602 ), which is perhaps the one mentioned by Appian ( BCiv.

Human skulls had been placed right at the bottom of one of the enclosure ditches possibly as a dedicatory or ancestral offering.

The third tier, the top half of which survives, bears the main dedicatory inscription on one face.

Formal dedication ceremonies were held October 22, 1967, with Dr. Ashley Montagu, one of the world ’ s foremost anthropologists, delivering the dedicatory address.

Mrs. Christie makes one departure here from her recent practice, as she explains in her dedicatory foreword.

The dedicatory artefacts kept in the shrine were subsequently buried together on the edge of the midden, perhaps intended for temporary safe-keeping, in the late 3rd or 4th century CE.

' The same words were used by Sigmund Freud as the dedicatory motto for his seminal book The Interpretation of Dreams, figuring Acheron as psychological underworld beneath the conscious mind.

The Arician wood sanctuary near the lake of Nemi was Latin confederal as testified by the dedicatory epigraph quoted by Cato.

At the 1836 dedication of the Kirtland Temple the dedicatory prayer asks that God grant them the gift of tongues and at the end of the service Brigham Young speaks in tongues, another elder interprets it and then gives his own exhortation in tongues.

On March 12, 1610, Galileo wrote his dedicatory letter to the Duke of Tuscany, and the next day sent a copy to the Grand Duke, hoping to obtain the Grand Duke ’ s support as quickly as possible.

In the dedicatory letter, Calvin praised the work of his predecessors Philipp Melanchthon, Heinrich Bullinger, and Martin Bucer, but he also took care to distinguish his own work from theirs and to criticise some of their shortcomings.

Abbadie subsequently published a revised version of the French translation of the English liturgy used at this church, with an epistle dedicatory to George I.

" Astrology itself is mentioned only twice in Nostradamus's Preface and 41 times in the Centuries themselves, but more frequently in his dedicatory Letter to King Henri II.

This temple has an architrave with a long dedicatory text bearing Hatshepsut's famous denunciation of the Hyksos that has been translated by James P. Allen.

His ability to compose tastefully and poignantly on military themes put him in great demand among Greek states after their defeat of the second Persian invasion, when he is known to have composed epitaphs for Athenians, Spartans and Corinthians, a commemorative song for Leonidas and his men, a dedicatory epigram for Pausanias, and poems on the battles of Artemisium, Salamis, and Plataea.

There are thirty-two poems in the collection ( almost all with a dedicatee ), divided into five books, each with a dedicatory epistle.

The name also appears on a dedicatory cippus from Civita d ' Antino, in the Umbrian Iguvine Tablets, and in inscriptions in the territories of the Paeligni, Vestini, and Sabines.

He is known from three dedicatory inscriptions.

Makeatutara made mistakes as he recited the dedicatory ( or baptismal ) incantations over Māui, which made it inevitable that Māui would die.

Taranga introduced them and his father performed the dedicatory ritual over his son.