The next year it was smashed by local villagers during a dispute over its ownership, but a " squeeze " ( a papier-mâché impression ) had been obtained, and fragments containing most of the inscription ( 613 letters out of about a thousand ) were later recovered and pieced together.

Its ownership was later transferred to the Parish Council, as seen by the inscription " Parish Building " over the entrance.

On folio 66 verso there is a partially erased 12th century inscription which reads " iste est liber sanct ......" Also on folio 66v are two ownership inscriptions.

The column was removed at some point during Stone's ownership of the park with the inscription recording Staunton's election victories being moved to the shell house.

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 ''.

The regulations require the inscription of each individual ( male or female, adult or child ) on a separate card ( fiche ).

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 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!

* 1864 – The U. S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.

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.

The inscription on Aeschylus's gravestone makes no mention of his theatrical renown, commemorating only his military achievements:

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.

Pope Martin V protested in vain against the inscription on the sarcophagus: " John the former pope ".

As Charles is about to use the paper receipt from Mickey's birthday gift as tinder to light the stove, he notices on it that she also bought Bob an expensive wristwatch engraved with an intimate inscription.

An inscription confirms the struggle between the native Egyptian and the foreign soldiery, and proves that Apries was killed and honourably buried in the third year of Amasis ( c. 567 B. C. E .).

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.

In the central highlands this resulted in unification in a kingdom with the city of Samaria as its capital, possibly by the second half of the 10th century BCE when an inscription of the Egyptian pharaoh Shoshenq I, the biblical Shishak, records a series of campaigns directed at the area.

The Upper Egyptian Famine Stela, dating from the Ptolemaic period, bears an inscription containing a legend about a famine of seven years during the reign of Djoser.

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.

An Egyptian funerary inscription of 1430 BC records that the warrior Amenhotep ( Amenophis ) II was also renowned for his feats of oarsmanship.

The most complete ancient Egyptian account of the myth is the Great Hymn to Osiris, an inscription from the Eighteenth Dynasty ( c. 1550 – 1292 BC ) that gives the general outline of the entire story but includes little detail.

The ethnonym is attested as early as the 13th century BCE in an Egyptian inscription.

The name Israel first appears c. 1209 BCE, at the end of the Late Bronze Age and the very beginning of the period archaeologists and historians call Iron Age I, in an inscription of the Egyptian pharaoh Merneptah.

* 2500 BC-Iry Egyptian inscription speaks of Iry as of the palace, physician of the belly, of the royal bowels, and who prepares the important medicine ( name cannot be translated ) and knows the inner juices of the body.

Her symbol is remarkably similar to the Egyptian ankh and her shrine, excavated at Sarepta in southern Phoenicia, revealed an inscription that related her securely to the Phoenician goddess Astarte ( Ishtar ).

In the middle of the room stands a metal case, with the emblem of the Guardians of the Lost Library our heroes first saw in Egypt, an Ibis symbolizing Thoth, the Egyptian deity of wisdom and writing, and an inscription on a metal plate by the last survivor of Drakeborough, saying that he had the library condensed into one single volume with every information no other surviving book in the world included.

On the pyramid it is declared in Egyptian writing how much was spent on radishes and onions and leeks for the workmen, and if I remember correctly what the interpreter said while reading this inscription for me, a sum of 1600 silver talents was spent.

The inscription celebrates a donation of land to an Egyptian temple, and places a curse on anyone who would misuse or appropriate the land.

An Egyptian inscription also relates the Shasu, who are described as living above Egypt, with the name YHW.

After the Egyptian conquest of Beit She ’ an by pharaoh Thutmose III in the 15th century BCE ( recorded in an inscription at Karnak ), the small town on the summit of the Tell became the center of the Egyptian administration of the region.

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.

von Beckerath observes that a Year 18 date appears in a fragmentary inscription of an Egyptian official and notes that the date likely refers to Hatshepsut's prenomen Maatkare, which had been altered from Aakheperenre Thutmose II, with the reference to the deceased Thutmose II being removed.

It was first recorded in an inscription of Egyptian Pharaoh Seti I, from 1303 BCE as Rph, and as the first stop on Pharaoh Shoshenq I's campaign to the Levant in 925 BC.

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.

It seems to be mentioned on an Egyptian funerary inscription of Amenophis III as ' Nuplija '.

In 1834, Anthon stated that, " The whole story about my having pronounced the Mormonite inscription to be ' reformed Egyptian hieroglyphics ' is perfectly false ... I soon came to the conclusion that it was all a trick, perhaps a hoax ... requested an opinion from me in writing, which of course I declined giving.

The original text contains no word breaks ; these are merely suggested ; numbers appear in the original inscription in an Egyptian standard.

On the S wall of the Shrewbury Chapel is the alabaster monument to the SixthEarl of Shrewsbury with its architectural surround, armored effigy, and Latin inscription.

Sir John, an alabaster knight with an inscription in Norman French, is here from the beginning of the 14th century, and from the end of it, in brass, are Robert and Claricia, with a greyhound and two dogs at their feet as they clasp hands, their son Thomas holding his wife's hand near them in a brass of 1405.

He is, in terms of present-day knowledge, the second most obscure 5th Dynasty ruler after the ephemeral Shepseskare — although a relief by an official named Tjutju depicts him adoring the pharaoh, one major quarry inscription at Wadi Maghara in the Sinai dated to his reign, a single seal bearing his name and a small alabaster statue prove his existence beyond doubt.