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 ''.

Each adult is held personally responsible for assuring his inscription and obtaining an identification card which must be shown on demand.

The oldest text in Phoenician script is an inscription on the sarcophagus of King Ahiram.

A writing system for it was devised in 1119 AD and an inscription using this system is known from 1185 ( see List of Jurchen inscriptions ).

It is first attested by an inscription dated to 1224 or 1225 AD and by the Secret History of the Mongols, written in 1228 ( see Mongolic languages ).

Sometimes the whole space is taken up with the inscription.

This word is usually conceded to be derived from the Hebrew ( Aramaic ), meaning " Thou art our father " ( אב לן את ), and also occurs in connection with Abrasax ; the following inscription is found upon a metal plate in the Carlsruhe Museum:

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!

The first known mention of the city of Akkad is in an inscription of Enshakushanna of Uruk, where he claims to have defeated Agade — indicating that it was in existence well before the days of Sargon of Akkad, whom the Sumerian King List claims to have built it.

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.

A self-portrait, a drawing in silverpoint, is dated 1484 ( Albertina, Vienna ) “ when I was a child ," as his later inscription says.

Instead, the Hebrew name Ahasuerus accords with an inscription of the time that notes that Artaxerxes II was named also Arshu, understood as a shortening of Achshiyarshu the Babylonian rendering of the Persian Khshayarsha ( Xerxes ), through which the Hebrew Achashverosh ( Ahasuerus ) is derived.

The Behistun Inscription ( also Bistun or Bisutun, Modern Persian: بیستون < Old Persian: Bagastana, meaning " the place of god ") is a multi-lingual inscription located on Mount Behistun in the Kermanshah Province of Iran, near the city of Kermanshah in western Iran.

In effect, then, the inscription is to cuneiform what the Rosetta Stone is to Egyptian hieroglyphs: the document most crucial in the decipherment of a previously lost script.

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

An inscription dating to 330 records the title of Alamannicus, so it is probable that his generals won a victory over the Alamanni.

The accompanying inscription is in Greek.

Additional evidence is given by one inscription on a metal plaque from Steinsel-Rëlent in Luxembourg, in the territory of the Celtic Treveri.

It is dated to the 5th century BC by the inscription on its cornice.

Immediately adjacent to the exit ( and overlooked by most tour guides ) is the inscription that mentions the Roman proconsul Gallio.

The Nørre Nærå Runestone is interpretted as having a " grave binding inscription " used to keep the deceased in its grave.

The homicide law is a highly fragmented inscription, but it does state that it is up to the victim ’ s relatives to prosecute a killer.

Some time later the missing part of the relic was found and the complete inscription, together with other new evidence, fully corroborated the ancient priest's information.

* 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.

She appeared to have no children with her husband and her sepulchral inscription has been found in Italy.

The neck was designed to be inserted in a torso, but no statue, base or inscription was found.

Risdon also stated that the original tomb bore an inscription: " They fyrste that fyndes and bringes mee to my grave, The priorie of Plimstoke they shall have ", but no sign of this has ever been found.

This encouraged Crossing to arrange to lift the clapper bridge, but no inscription was found.

One inscription found at Axum, states that he conquered the nation of the Bogos, and returned thanks to his father, the god Mars, for his victory.

An inscription found on Lemnos in 1886, is in an alphabet practically identical to that of Etruscan.

This theory is confusing as Gurmukhi characters have a very close resemblance with " Siddh Matrika " inscriptions found at some sacred wells in Punjab as G. B Singh notes, one being the hathur inscription dating to just before the brith of Guru Nanak.

Heimdallr is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional material ; in the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, both written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson ; in the poetry of skalds ; and on an Old Norse runic inscription found in England.

Siloam Inscription, lintel inscription, found over the doorway of a tomb, has been ascribed to his comptroller Shebna.

The earliest Israelite inscription found, relating to Yahveh as the redeemer of Jerusalem, dates to 7th century BCE.

In 1279, when Charles II, King of Naples, erected a Dominican convent at La Sainte-Baume, the shrine was found intact, with an explanatory inscription stating why the relics had been hidden.

Inside the synagogue, an ostracon bearing the inscription me ' aser cohen ( tithe for the priest ) was found, as were fragments of two scrolls ; parts of Deuteronomy 33 – 34 and parts of Ezekiel 35 – 38 ( including the vision of the " dry bones "), found hidden in pits dug under the floor of a small room built inside the synagogue.

* In a Licchavi period inscription ( found on archeological stoneworks, which list mostly the dates and commissioners of these constructions, also communicate royal edicts, religious mantras or historical notes ) mention the Kirata, that through the corroboration of local myths and the Vamsavalis, identify a people prior to the Licchavi dynasty.

The first non-Christian reference to Nazareth is an inscription on a marble fragment from a synagogue found in Caesarea Maritima in 1962.

A Hebrew inscription found in Caesarea dating to the late 3rd or early 4th century mentions Nazareth as the home of the priestly Hapizzez family after the Bar Kokhba revolt ( 132-135 AD ).

From the three fragments that have been found, the inscription seems to be a list of the twenty-four priestly courses ( cf.

Recently, an inscription dating to the late 10th / early 9th centuries BC with two names, very similar to one of the suggested etymologies of the popular Philistine name Goliath ( Lydian Alyattes, or perhaps Greek Kalliades ) was found in the excavations at Gath.

In a Linear B ( Mycenean Greek ) inscription on a tablet found at Pylos dated 1400 – 1200 BC, John Chadwick reconstructs the name of a goddess * Preswa who could be identified with Persa, daughter of Oceanus and finds speculative the further identification with the first element of Persephone.

: Hood's death is stated by Ritson to have taken place on the 18th of November, 1247, about the 87th year of his age ; but according to the following inscription found among the papers of the Dean of York ... the death occurred a month later.