In Athens, Paul visits an altar with an inscription dedicated to an unknown god, so when he gives his speech on the Areopagos, he proclaims to worship that same unknown god whom he identifies as the Christian God.

An inscription identifies Callicrates as one of the architects of the Classical circuit wall of the Acropolis ( IG I < sup > 3 </ sup > 45 ), and Plutarch further states ( loc cit ) that he contracted to build the Middle of three amazing walls linking Athens and Piraeus.

An ancient Aramaic inscription, found at Dier Alla, identifies Balaam as a prophet of Shamash, a semitic sun-god, and consequently, it could well be the case that the unidentified Baal of Peor is Shamash.

The central religious image of Angkor Wat was an image of Vishnu, and an inscription identifies Suryavarman as " Paramavishnuloka ," or " he who enters the heavenly world of Vishnu.

A Latin inscription on the monument identifies him simply as " Father of twelve children and thirteen books "; a second inscription, in English, gives a brief chronicle of his life and ends by stating that " His laste wordes thy kingdome come, thye will be done.

The inclusion of this inscription again identifies the Gospel Book with Christ.

The inscription above identifies them as " Lord Ferdinand and Lady Isabella, Kings of Castille and of Aragon ".

A medieval Georgian inscription identifies the figure of the old man with long white beard and dressed in rich clerical habit as Shota from Rustavi.

The oldest documentation of the water clock is the tomb inscription of the 16th century BCE Egyptian court official Amenemhet, which identifies him as its inventor.

" The name is known from an inscription found near the French town of Sablet which identifies him with the Roman god Mars ( an interpretatio romana ).

Circular inscription sewing in Latin identifies the coat as a bishop's chasuble.

A dedicatory inscription identifies the donor as one pater Cnaeus Arrius Claudianus, perhaps of the same clan as Titus Arrius Antoninus ' mother.

A trilingual inscription of the 2nd century BC from Sardinia also identifies Eshmun with the Greek Asclepius and the Latin Aesculapius.

Plutarch said that the shrine of Athena, which he identifies with Isis, in Sais carried the inscription " I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be ; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

The inscription under the sculpture identifying Sembiyan Mahadevi identifies her and the Archealogical Survey of India interprets the bearded man behind her as Gandaraditya Chola.

The inscription identifies the king inside and warns people not to disturb him.

A pensor lignarius (" weigher of wood ") noted in a recently unearthed inscription, identifies a trade in timber and perhaps firewood ( Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali ).

The historian al-Maqrizi lists the mosque's construction start date as 876 AD, and the mosque's original inscription slab identifies the date of completion as 265 AH, or 879 AD.

The inscription at Habitancum identifies the troops stationed at that location as being from the Vangiones, the Gaesati and Rhaetia ; i. e., from Germania Superior.

Hahn, in a study published in 1983, identifies Sembrouthes, who is known only from an inscription found in Daqqi Mahari in modern Eritrea, with Ousanas.

If this is the correct interpretation, the inscription identifies the artist.

The inscription identifies her as regalis adelpha, or ' royal sister ', which is taken to be a reference both to her status as a nun and to her being the sister of Edward and Ethelred.

On the clock given him was the inscription, `` For Outstanding Contribution to Billiken Basketball, 1960-61 ''.

It is considered striking that Sennacherib not only left his father's city, but also doesn ’ t name him in any official inscription during his reign.

Pilate's rank while he was governor of Iudaea province appeared in a Latin inscription on the Pilate Stone which called him a prefect, while this Tacitean passage calls him a procurator.

Charles Baudelaire, a noted French writer who translated Poe's works into French and who was largely inspired by him, said that the building on the site of the Old Jacobin Club had no gates and, therefore, no inscription.

For Williams ' fortieth birthday, MacArthur sent him an oil painting of himself with the inscription " To Ted Williams — not only America's greatest baseball player, but a great American who served his country.

Spells traditionally were cast by many methods, such as by the inscription of runes or sigils on an object to give it magical powers ; by the immolation or binding of a wax or clay image ( poppet ) of a person to affect him or her magically ; by the recitation of incantations ; by the performance of physical rituals ; by the employment of magical herbs as amulets or potions ; by gazing at mirrors, swords or other specula ( scrying ) for purposes of divination ; and by many other means.

Kaleb sent a fleet across the Red Sea and was able to defeat Dhu Nuwas, who was killed in battle according to an inscription from Husn al-Ghurab, while later Arab tradition has him riding his horse into the sea.

On its base ( fragments are now in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum ), an inscription praises him as “ everywhere and forever victorius .”

The crossguard bears the following Latin inscription: Quicumque hec / nomina Deii secum tu / lerit nullum periculum / ei omnino nocebit (" Whoever will carry these names of God with him, no danger will harm him ").

One of the plates had already been broken by that time with only part of the inscription preserved: Liste est glaud ... h Bolezlai Duc ... (" This is a sword of ... Duke Boleslaus ..."); the inscription on the other plate continued: Cum quo ei Dn SOS Omnipotens Salvator auxiletur adsus partes amen (" With whom is the Omnipotent Lord and Savior, to help him against his enemies.

In 1938, after recovering the cross and donating it to Marcus Brody's museum, Indiana is introduced to Walter Donovan, who informs him that Indiana's estranged father has vanished while searching for the Holy Grail, using an incomplete inscription as his guide.

According to the story in the inscription, Balaam wakes up weeping and tells his people that the gods appeared to him in the night telling him about a goddess threatening to destroy the land.

Note the Spanish inscription describing him as " the second discoverer of Cuba.

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 inscription states that ships of Dilmun ( Bahrain ) brought him wood as tribute from foreign lands.

Kerenyi notes a Linear B inscription from Knossos, " to all the gods, honey ... to the mistress of the labyrinth honey " in equal amounts, suggesting to him that the Mistress of the Labyrinth was a Great Goddess in her own right.

Information regarding the life of Demetrius are drawn mainly from inscription as only Plutarch writes of him, in Life of Aratus, and Polybius makes scarce mentions of him.

Another inscription, at Ebchester, specifically refers to him as Cocidius Vernostonus, Cocidius of the alder tree.

An inscription says that, in the course of combat, Suryavarman leapt onto his rival's war elephant and killed him, just as the mythical bird-man Garuda slays a serpent.