The Alfred jewel, discovered in Somerset in 1693, has long been associated with King Alfred because of its Old English inscription " AELFRED MEC HEHT GEWYRCAN " ( Alfred ordered me to be made ).

A bronze scepter or wand has been discovered at Atsbi Dera with in inscription mentioning " GDR of Axum ".

A lead spindle whorl bearing an Old Norse Younger Futhark inscription that mentions Heimdallr was discovered in Saltfleetby, England on September 1, 2010.

The 5th century Tugu inscription discovered in Tugu district, North Jakarta

It is possible that the Trojan Linear A scripts that were discovered by Heinrich Schliemann and one inscription from central Crete, as well as a few similar potters ' marks from Lahun, Egypt ( 12th dynasty ), come from an earlier period, ca.

In the Osirian temple at Denderah, an inscription ( translated by Budge, Chapter XV, Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection ) describes in detail the making of wheat paste models of each dismembered piece of Osiris to be sent out to the town where each piece is discovered by Isis.

Other evidence includes, for example, an 8th century combination of iconography and inscriptions discovered at Kuntillet Ajrud in the northern Sinai desert where a storage jar shows three anthropomorphic figures and an inscription that refers to " Yahweh … and his asherah ".

In 1931, the Colter Stone, a rock carved in the shape of a head with the inscription " John Colter " on one side and the year " 1808 " on the other, was discovered in a field in Tetonia, Idaho, which is west of Teton Pass.

On the basament, there is the following inscription in Italian language: " Camillo Golgi / patologo sommo / della scienza istologica / antesignano e maestro / la segreta struttura / del tessuto nervoso / con intenta vigilia / sorprese e descrisse / qui operò / qui vive / guida e luce ai venturi / MDCCCXLIII – MCMXXVI " ( Camillo Golgi / outstanding pathologist / of histological science / precursor and master / the secret structure / of the nervous tissue / with strenuous effort / discovered and described / here he worked / here he lives / here he guides and enlightens future scholars / 1843 – 1926 ).

In 1998, excavations discovered the " Arthur stone " which has added to Tintagel's Arthurian lore though historians do not believe the inscription refers to King Arthur himself.

The area includes several sites of archaeological interest, notably Hezekiah's tunnel ( a water supply system, where the Siloam inscription was found ), Warren's shaft ( an earlier structure, postulated by some to have been a water supply system ), and the Pool of Siloam ( the presently extant Byzantine-era pool, and the recently discovered Second Temple-period pool ).

The earliest record of the name is in a Roman-era ( 3rd century ) inscription, discovered in 1784 in Wiesbaden ( at the time known as Aquae Mattiacorum in Germania Superior ), edited in Codex inscriptionum romanarum Danubii et Rheni as no.

This altar bears the inscription seen and misread by S. Justin ( Semoni Sanco Deo read as Simoni Deo Sancto ) and was discovered on the island in July, 1574.

However, Deyts notes that the bronze Gallo-Roman statue of a woman in a short belted tunic, riding a boar sidesaddle and holding a knife ( Boucher fig. 292, or here ), bears no inscription, and was simply assumed to be Arduinna by the 19th century antiquarian who discovered it — perhaps because the modern symbol of the Ardennes region is also a boar ( Deyts 1992, pp. 46 – 47 ).

Other inscription to the goddess have been discovered in Daun ( CIL 13, 4203 ), Weilerbach ( CIL 13, 4113 ), Heddernheim ( CIL 13, 7375 p 125 ), and Stockstadt ( CIL 13, 11789 ).

Recently a new inscription to Condatis has been discovered at Cramond in the Lothian region of Scotland ( AE 1978, 451 ; dedicated to d ( eo ) M ( arti ) Con ).

The inscription was discovered by a group led by Antonio Frova and has been dated to AD 26 – 37.

However, an inscription on a limestone block known as the Pilate Stone — a dedication to Tiberius Caesar Augustus — that was discovered in 1961 in the ruins of an amphitheater at Caesarea Maritima refers to Pilate as " Prefect of Judaea ".

At a depth of 5 m ( 16 feet ) the monks discovered a massive treetrunk coffin and a leaden cross bearing the inscription: Hic jacet sepultus inclitus rex Arthurus in insula Avalonia.

The earliest known stone inscription in the Old Malay language was found in Sumatra, written in Pallava variant of Grantha script and dates back to 7th century – known as Kedukan Bukit Inscription, it was discovered by the Dutchman M. Batenburg on 29 November 1920, at Kedukan Bukit, South Sumatra, on the banks of the River Tatang, a tributary of the River Musi.

This marriage is held to have taken place in 277 BC, and a recently discovered inscription shows that Arsinoë died in 270, in the fifteenth year of her brother's reign.

The rock inscription near the south-eastern part of Boyukdash's foot ( 70 km from Baku ) was discovered on June 2, 1948 by Azerbaijani archaeologist Ishag Jafarzadeh.

The Golden horns of Gallehus, discovered in Denmark and likely dating to the 4th century, bears this Runic inscription in Proto-Norse:

Blocks have been found showing the partial remains of an inscription with the Horus name of Khafre ( Weser-ib ). Mariette discovered statues of Khafre in 1860.

If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.

* Marcus Aurelius Fulvus Antoninus ( died before 138 ); his sepulchral inscription has been found at the Mausoleum of Hadrian in Rome.

* Marcus Galerius Aurelius Antoninus ( died before 138 ); his sepulchral inscription has been found at the Mausoleum of Hadrian in Rome.

On his deathbed in 1836, he ordered that an inscription be placed upon his tombstone: Tandem Felix ( Happy at Last ).

A runic inscription on a fibula found at Bad Ems reflects Christian pious sentiment ( and is also explicitly marked with a Christian cross ), reading god fura dih deofile ᛭ (" God for / before you, Theophilus!

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.

A denarius of Alfonso's, minted at Jaca, bearing his effigy and the inscription ANFUS-REX ARA-GON ( Anfusus rex Aragonensium, King Alfonso of Aragon ).

The first universally accepted inscription containing the use of the 0 glyph is first recorded in the 9th century, in an inscription at Gwalior in Central India dated to 870.

Early evidence of their use in Britain includes: an equal hour horary quadrant from 1396, in England, a 1445 inscription on the tower of Heathfield Church, Sussex ; a 1448 inscription on a wooden lych-gate of Bray Church, Berkshire ; and a 1487 inscription on the belfry door at Piddletrenthide church, Dorset ; and in Scotland a 1470 inscription on the tomb of the first Earl of Huntly in Elgin Cathedral.

There is some speculation that the inscription was added by Claudius himself decades later, and that he originally did not appear at all.

The inscription at the bottom of the statue translates as " In memory of Cuauhtémoc ( spelled Quautemoc ) and his warriors who battled heroically in defense of their country.

The name has been compared to a divine epithet Carnonos in a Celtic inscription written in Greek characters at Montagnac, Hérault ( as καρνονου, karnonou, in the dative case ).

Additionally, according to Plutarch's essay on the meaning of the " E at Delphi "-- the only literary source for the inscription --- there was also inscribed at the temple a large letter E. Among other things epsilon signifies the number 5.

" In Bronze Age Crete, an inscription da-da-re-jo-de has been read as referring to a place at Knossos, and a place of worship.

The presence of a Hellenised Diana at Nemi should be related to the presence of the cult in Campania, as Diana Tifatina was appelled Trivia in an imperial age inscription which mentions a flamen Virbialis dedicated by eques C. Octavius Verus.

By the end of his reign, Diocletian had secured the entire length of the Danube, provided it with forts, bridgeheads, highways, and walled towns, and sent fifteen or more legions to patrol the region ; an inscription at Sexaginta Prista on the Lower Danube extolled restored tranquilitas at the region.

In the edict, preserved in an inscription from the city of Aphrodisias in Caria ( near Geyre, Turkey ), it was declared that all debts contracted before 1 September 301 must be repaid at the old standards, while all debts contracted after that date would be repaid at the new standards.

The European powers then determined to intervene, and authorized the landing in Beirut of a body of French troops under General Beaufort d ' Hautpoul, whose inscription can still be seen on the historic rock at the mouth of Nahr al-Kalb.