A recently published inscription from Aphrodisias confirms that he was head of one of the Schools at Athens and gives his full name as Titus Aurelius Alexander.

The inscription Panyu 番禺 on tomb bricks further confirms the dating, since, according to historical records, Panyu was the name of the county to which the present territory of Hong Kong belonged during the Han Dynasty.

The sources for Pilate's life are the four canonical gospels, Philo of Alexandria, Josephus, a brief mention by Tacitus, and an inscription known as the Pilate Stone, which confirms his historicity and establishes his title as prefect.

An inscription of ownership on an expensive Egyptian alabaster vase once owned by the son has survived to attest the latter's short official career, and includes an unusual triple filiation which confirms the literary evidence to the effect that Clodius ' own filiation was: Ap.

Haddola inscription confirms that Gurjar Pratihars continued to rule in this region during reign of Mahipala I too.

The historian Rama Shankar Tripathi states that the Rajor inscription confirms the Gurjara origin of the Pratiharas.

Whatever the origin of the name, we have an inscription in Gruter's work, which confirms their function: ANCHIALVS.

The existence of this and other choregic inscription steles verifies the identification of our site as the classical demos of Ikaria, and confirms as well the town ’ s reputation as host of the yearly " Dionysia " theatrical contests, where plays by the famous fifth century B. C.

A Himyarite inscription confirms the Sabaean text, mentioning that Aksum, Saba ', Hadramaut, and Qataban were all allied against Himyar.

On the occasion of the peace of Nystad ( 1721 ), which terminated the Great Northern War's 21 years of struggle between Russia and Sweden, Bestuzhev designed and had minted a commemorative medal with a panegyrical Latin inscription, which so delighted Peter ( then at Derbent ) that he sent a letter of thanks written with his own hand and his portrait set in brilliants.

Authored by Darius the Great sometime between his coronation as king of the Persian Empire in the summer of 522 BC and his death in autumn of 486 BC, the inscription begins with a brief autobiography of Darius, including his ancestry and lineage.

An extant inscription from the Athenian arsenal, dated between 338 and 326 BC, lists a number of stored catapults with shooting bolts of varying size and springs of sinews.

Though modern epigrams are usually thought of as very short, Greek literary epigram was not always as short as later examples, and the divide between " epigram " and " elegy " is sometimes indistinct ( they share a characteristic metre, elegiac couplets ); all the same, the origin of the genre in inscription exerted a residual pressure to keep things concise.

The inscription corpus consists of two monuments which were erected in the Orkhon Valley between 732 and 735 in honour of the two Kokturk prince Kul Tigin and his brother the emperor Bilge Kağan, as well as inscriptions on slabs scattered in the wider area. The script was also used for the epic poetry of the Turkic people.

On the southern wall of the sanctuary is the tomb and epitaph he erected for himself and his wives, detailing in a lengthy Latin inscription his ancestry and accomplishments, including his role as peacemaker between the Christian nations of Europe and a curiously altered portion detailing his curbing of heresy.

The terms of this treaty, including the fixed borders between the two countries, are recorded in a bilingual inscription on a stone pillar outside the Jokhang temple in Lhasa.

The earliest reference to a Greek Jew is an inscription dated c. 300-250 BCE, found in Oropos, a small coastal town between Athens and Boeotia, which refers to " Moschos, son of Moschion the Jew ", who may have been a slave.

On being made Grand Duke of Tuscany Cosimo I de ' Medici was granted the use of an open radial crown with a representation of the red Florentine fleurs-de-lis with its stamens posed between the petals in place of the ray in the front, completely covered with precious stones, by Pope Pius V, who specified that the circlet of this crown be engraved with an inscription that the crown had been granted him to wear by the Pope.

One of the stones, the 9th century Drosten Stone, has the distinction of being one of the few Pictish artefacts to have an inscription in Latin text: ' DROSTEN: IREUORET TTFOR CUS ', which has been interpreted in various ways, but it is thought that the second line refers to the Pictish King Uurad, who reigned between 839 and 842 AD.

The inscription says, " The vanished house between heaven and earth.

The area was previously open plain: the Donner party passed through on its way to California in 1846 and a pioneer cemetery marker in Hastings bears an inscription taken from Tamsen Donner's journal: " The country between the Blue and the Platte is beautiful beyond compare.

Nevertheless, between 120, 000 and 140, 000 people were able to pass by the open casket and then the bell, carefully placed at Lincoln's head so mourners could read the inscription, " Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.

The traditional view based on the majority of ancient sources, e. g., Darius the Great's Behistun inscription, as well as Herodotus, Justin, and Ctesias, although there are minor differences between them.

One more modest and romantic theory is that the inscription is a secret message between two lovers.

An interesting feature of this denomination is that the design of the reverse of the coin changed each year between 1983 and 2008 to show, in turn, an emblem representing the UK, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and England, together with an appropriate edge inscription.

He was suffect consul for the second half of 29, and held a provincial governorship, probably of Pannonia, in the early years of Claudius's reign: another inscription shows he oversaw the building of a road between Trieste and Rijeka at this time.

Edward III's first coinage, between 1327 and 1335, is very similar to the Edward I and II pennies, with the inscription around a front-facing bust of the king ; these pennies were minted in London, Bury St Edmunds, Canterbury, Durham, York, and Berwick on Tweed.

The obverse side of the coin shows a portrait of Queen Victoria wearing a veil, with the inscription ""&# 160 ; ( Victoria-By the grace of God ), while the reverse side shows four cruciform-crowned shields bearing the emblems of England ( x2 ), Scotland, and Ireland, with sceptres between the shields, in the style of Charles II's gold coins designed by John Roettiers ; the inscription on the reverse reads, "".

The obverse of coins minted between 1834 and 1837 show the right-facing portrait of King William IV with the inscription.

Symbolic inscription consisting of two " waw " letters on the walls of the Eski Cami ( Old Mosque, also known as Ulu Cami, meaning Grand Mosque ) built between 1403 and 1414.

The obverse showed a fine right-facing bust of the king wearing a laurel wreath, surrounded by the legend, while the reverse showed four crowned cruciform shields bearing the arms of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, between which were four sceptres, and in the centre were four interlinked " C " s, surrounded by the inscription.

The obverse showed a fine right-facing bust of the king wearing a laurel wreath, surrounded by the legend, while the reverse showed four crowned cruciform shields bearing the arms of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, between which were four sceptres, and in the centre were four interlinked " C " s, surrounded by the inscription.

The obverse showed a fine right-facing bust of the king wearing a laurel wreath ( amended several times during the reign ), surrounded by the legend (" Charles II by the grace of God "), while the reverse showed four crowned cruciform shields bearing the arms of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, between which were four sceptres, and in the centre were four interlinked " C " s, surrounded by the inscription (" Of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King ").

In his early life, he taught rhetoric in his native place, which may have been Cirta in Numidia, where an inscription mentions a certain ' L.

It had been presumed that this title was by this time purely nominal, with auxiliary troops being recruited locally, but an inscription found in a recent season of excavations suggests that native Gauls were still to be found in the regiment and that they liked to distinguish themselves from British soldiers.

She wrote a new will, and settled her funeral arrangements: she was to be buried in her native Brunswick in a tomb bearing the inscription " Here lies Caroline, the Injured Queen of England ".

In June 1992, a monument to Chagall was erected on his native Pokrovskaja street and a memorial inscription placed on the wall of his house.

The first known use of alphabetic sampi in writing native Greek words is an inscription found on a silver plate in Ephesus, which has the words "" (" four ") and "" (" forty ") spelled with sampi ( cf.

the earliest date is put around the 14th century where a copperplate inscription of Parakarama Bahu IV ( 1302-1326 ) refers to two persons who were declared exempt from certain taxes which included " gun licenses ". http :// www. island. lk / index. php? page_cat = article-details & page = article-details & code_title = 22207 many also believe that it was the Portuguese who first brought over actual muskets during their invasion of the Sri Lankan Coastline and low lands in 1505 as they regularly used short barrelled matchlocks during combat, however, P. E. P. Deraniyagala points out that the Sinhala term for gun, ‘ bondikula ’ matches the Arabic term for gun, ‘ bunduk .’ Also that certain technical aspects of the early Sinhalese matchlock were similar to the matchlocks used in the Middle East, thus forming the generally accepted theory that the musket was not entirely new to the island by the time the Portuguese came, but it was only in a short matter of time that native Sri Lankan kingdoms, most notably the kingdom of Sitawaka and the Kandyan Kingdom where Sinhalese muskets with a unique bifurcated stock, longer barrel and smaller calibre, which made it more efficient in driving out the energy from the gunpowder, where manufactured by the hundreds and mastered by soldiers to the point where according to the Portuguese invader, Queyroz, they could " fire at night to put out a match " and " by day at 60 paces would sever a knife with four or five bullets " and " send as many on the same spot in the target.

The subsequent native sources, all written in Old Bulgarian language, without exceptions treat the state as Bulgarian in the line of tsar's title of Ivan Asen II from his Turnovo's inscription from 1230 " In Christ the Lord good and faithful Tsar and autocrat of the Bulgarians, son of the old Asen ", an inscription from Boyana Church from 1259 " This was written in the Bulgarian Empire under the pious and devout Tsar Constantine Asen " and one marginal note from 1269 / 70 " In the days of the faithful tsar Constantine, who ruled the Bulgarian throne ".

For example, the Behistun inscription is an official document of the Achaemenid Empire engraved on native rock at a location in Iran.

Upon returning home Duilius received Rome ’ s first naval triumph, which the inscription boasts was the first triumph to include native free-born Carthaginians.

In the Chichester inscription, the first two letters of the king's native name, given in the genitive case, are missing.

" Early antiquarians interpreted the inscription as referring to the place where the stone was found, but this idea is no longer accepted among scholars, and " Alatervae " is presumably a native name for the Matronae, perhaps originating with the Tungrian cohort who erected the altar.

It should perhaps be mentioned that there was a town Feronia in Sardinia, named probably after their native goddess by Faliscan settlers, from some of whom we have a votive inscription found at S. Maria di Falleri ( Conway, ib.

He went down to the river and found a native stone that he smoothed, then he carved this inscription: “ Mrs. S Chambers, Sep 3rd 1845 .” It remains one of the few Oregon Trail gravestones in existence.