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 ".

Other buildings include a temple dedicated to Caesar ; a hippodrome rebuilt in the 2nd century as a more conventional theater ; the Tiberieum, which has a limestone block with a dedicatory inscription.

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 ".

An inscription found at the base of a limestone statue dating from 13-37 AD, refers to ‘ Kyrenians Demos ' that is, the town's inhabitants.

" This may be due to the inscription being made at a different time, or due to differences in the hardness of the limestone.

An inscription on the limestone base of the statue shows that it was commissioned by Polyzalus, the tyrant of Gela, a Greek colony in Sicily, as a tribute to Apollo for helping him win the chariot race.

In addition there is an early 19th century limestone round-topped stone which bears the inscription to William Fowler " shot by an Highwayman on

The neighbouring village of Chew Magna has in its graveyard an early 19th century limestone round-topped stone which bears the inscription to William Fowler " shot by an Highwayman on Dundry Hill 14 June 1814 aged 32 years ".

The stone was a flat limestone rock used to seal a grave and the runic inscription was written on the underside, and could therefore not be read from above.

The inscription is approximately 15 metres high by 25 metres wide, and 100 metres up a limestone cliff from an ancient road connecting the capitals of Babylonia and Media ( Babylon and Ecbatana ).

The Pilate Stone is the name given to a block of limestone with a carved inscription attributed to Pontius Pilate, a prefect of the Roman-controlled province of Judaea from 26-36.

An official Latin inscription that dates several area strongholds to the 3rd century CE was discovered on a large limestone slab at nearby Yotvata bears.

The Zero Kilometre Stone is a 3 m high limestone sculpture in Budapest, forming a zero sign, with an inscription on its pedestal reading " KM " for kilometres.

Yishiha's 1413 stele in Tyr, Russia | Tyr, containing the last known inscription in Jurchen script.

A Neo-Babylonian royal inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II on a stele from Babylon, claimed to have been found in the 1917 excavation by Robert Koldewey, and of uncertain authenticity, reads: " Etemenanki Zikkurat Babibli of Babylon I made it, the wonder of the people of the world, I raised its top to heaven, made doors for the gates, and I covered it with bitumen and bricks.

An inscription by Ramesses II on a stele from Tanis which recorded the Sherden pirates ' raid and subsequent defeat, speaks of the constant threat which they posed to Egypt's Mediterranean coasts:

* Xanthus stele or Xanthian Obelisk, a stele bearing an inscription currently believed to be trilingual, in the ancient Lycian city of Xanthos

A trace of the Lemnian language is found on a 6th century inscription on a funerary stele, the Lemnos stele.

The stele bore an inscription written in 4 languages-Han, Jurchen, Mongolian, and Tibetan.

The temple contains a large tortoise-borne stele with the Yongle Emperor's inscription.

The stele is a smoothed block of basalt approximately one meter tall, 60 cm wide and 60 cm thick, bearing a surviving inscription of 34 lines.

The Mesha stele is the longest Iron Age inscription ever found in the region, the major evidence for the Moabite language, and a unique record of military campaigns.

This supposed correspondence lies behind the usual dating of the inscription to about 840 BCE, but Andre Lemaire has cautioned the identification is not certain and the stele may be as late as 810 BCE.

In any case, neither the Mesha inscription nor the Books of Kings were written as objective history, both were intended as propaganda for their respective gods, Kings to glorify Yahweh the God of Israel, and the stele to glorify Mesha and Kemosh the god of Moab.

Much of the above biographical information comes from a stone inscription on the Ramkhamhaeng stele, now in the National Museum in Bangkok.

A stele with the Hongzhi Emperor's inscription regarding the repair of the Temple of Confucius, Qufu.

The inscription on its stele ( classified K. 826 ) says that in 881 King Indravarman I dedicated the temple to the god Shiva and consecrated its central religious image, a lingam whose name Sri Indresvara was a combination of the king's own and the suffix "- esvara " which stood for Shiva (" Iśvara ").

Basalt funeral stele bearing an Aramaic inscription, ca.

This event is recorded on the Mesha stele, an extensive inscription written in the Moabite language.

Mesha, the Moabite ruler who celebrated a victory over the kingdom of Israel in a stone inscription, the Mesha stele found in 1868, was, according to Salibi, an Arabian, and Moab was a village ' south ( yemen ) of Rabin ' near Mecca.

Urartian cuneiform stele | stone inscription on display at the Erebuni Museum in Yerevan.

The Mongolian tradition of archery is attested by an inscription on a stone stele that was found near Nerchinsk in Siberia: " While Genghis Khan was holding an assembly of Mongolian dignitaries, after his conquest of Sartaul ( Khwarezm ), Yesüngge ( the son of Genghis Khan's brother ) shot a target at 335 alds ( 536 m ).

He laid the foundation of his reputation by his involvement with stele of Mesha ( Moabite Stone ), which bears the oldest Semitic inscription known.

Renan regarded both the Life and inscription as fanciful compositions, but in 1882 the English traveller William Ramsay discovered at Kelendres, near Synnada, in the Roman province of Phrygia Salutaris ( in Asia Minor, modern Anatolia ), a Christian stele ( inscribed slab ) bearing the date of the year 300 of the Phrygian era ( AD 216 ).

Fragmentary stele bearing the inscription " Ur-Nanshe, son of Gunidu, to Ningirsu " ( Louvre )