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 ".

There used to be an inscription on the frame stating that Hubert van Eyck maior quo nemo repertus ( greater than anyone ) started the altarpiece, but that Jan van Eyck-calling himself arte secundus ( second best in the art )-finished it in 1432.

The inscription in Etruscan letters reads eluveitie, which has been interpreted as the Etruscan form of the Celtic ( h ) elu ̯ eti ̯ os (“ the Helvetian ”), presumably referring to a man of Helvetian descent living in Mantua.

" According to Mindy MacLeod and Bernard Mees, the inscription " seems to begin as a benevolent formulation before abruptly switching to the infliction of distress and misery, presumably upon the recipient of the charm rather than the baleful valkyrie ", and they posit the final line appears " to constitute a rather spiteful kind of charm aimed at securing the love of a woman ".

In this rendering, Cross has restored the missing top of the tablet ( estimated at two lines ) based on the content of the rest of the inscription, as referring to a battle that has been fought and won by general Milkaton, son of Shubna, against the Sardinians at the site of, surely Tarshish ; Cross conjectures that Tarshish here " is most easily understood as the name of a refinery town in Sardinia, presumably Nora or an ancient site nearby.

An inscription on a figure of a yaksha from Mathura in the reign of Kumaragupta has been dated to 432 CE, and a pedestal ( with no king's name on it-but presumably from Kumaragupta's reign-has been dated to 442 CE.

The fact that Nakhtmin was Ay's intended heir is strongly implied by an inscription carved on a dyad funerary statue of Nakhtmin and his spouse which was presumably made during Ay's reign.

It is not known exactly when Bhrikuti married Songtsän Gampo, but it was presumably about the time that Narendadeva fled to Tibet after his father, Udayadeva, was replaced by Dhruvadeva c. 621 CE, who, according to an inscription dated in 623, was ruling jointly with Jiṣṇugupta.

An inscription reads " Rabini Shem hamphoras ," gibberish which presumably bastardizes " shem ha-meforasch " ( see Shemhamphorasch ).

It bears an inscription commemorating a military victory by someone named " Kuin ", presumably an Asian warlord — twenty years in the future.

" Early antiquarians interpreted the inscription as referring to the place where the stone was found, but this idea is no longer accepted among scholars, and " Alatervae " is presumably a native name for the Matronae, perhaps originating with the Tungrian cohort who erected the altar.

Sacchi opines that in the case of the Duenos inscription the speaker is acting according to the religious legal ritual, presumably enacting a private consecratio: the formula of the dedication is then a case of private dedicatio dis, dedication to the gods.

( The typography of the title on the book uses capitalisation to contrast emphasis (), to communicate additional meaning, namely a reference to the For Valour inscription on the medal -- and presumably the idea that valour is so much a part of the national character as to justify suggesting that " Scotland exists for the sake of valour ".

It was presumably present in the Ovre Stabu spearhead inscription ( ca.

An inscription asks for prayers for four individuals, one a goldsmith ( Wulfhelm ; the others are Ceolhard, Niclas and Ealhhun ), who were presumably the monks responsible for creating the manuscript and the elaborate metalwork cover it no doubt originally possessed.

Bay, however, later fell out of favour at Court presumably for overreaching himself and last appears in public in a dated Year 4 inscription from Siptah's reign.

The epigraph was not Poe's invention ; such an inscription had been reported, no later than 1803, as having been composed with the intention ( possibly facetious ) of having it placed on the site, and it had appeared, without attribution, as an item of trivia in the 1836 Southern Literary Messenger, a periodical to which Poe contributed.

Another ancient source is Diogenes of Oenoanda, who composed a large inscription at Oenoanda in Lycia.

There is a long dedication inscription of Salmānu-ašarēd, II or III undetermined, to Ištar composed for the consecration of a temple.

His friend, actor David Garrick, composed the following inscription for his tombstone:

The inscription on the slab has 20 lines, 30 shlokas ( verses ), and is composed in Sanskrit written in the Nagari script.

Both this inscription, and the main overhead inscription on both the east-and west-facing facades of the arch, were composed by Rudyard Kipling.

Since the Mes inscription was composed during the reign of Ramesses II when the Amarna-era Pharaohs were struck from the official king-lists, the Year 59 Horemheb date certainly includes the nearly 17 year long reign of Akhenaten, the 2 year independent reign of Neferneferuaten, the 9 year reign of Tutankhamun and the 4 year reign of Ay.

Below the balustraded roofline is a Latin inscription which continues around the four sides of the house and recalls its history ; it was composed by the then prime minister Gladstone.

The plaque bears excerpts from an inscription composed by Steinbrenner and flashed on the stadium scoreboard the day after his death:

The runes for a, n, s and t are the old Danish unsimplified forms which should have been out of use for a long time the 14th century ... I suggest that posited 14th centurycreator must at some time or other in his life have been familiar with an inscription ( or inscriptions ) composed at a time when these unsimplified forms were still in use " and that he " was not a professional runic scribe before he left his homeland ".

The high medieval Prüfening dedicatory inscription, composed in Latin and stamped in Roman square capitals

The second monument, composed mainly of black marble from Cong erected adjacent to the grave, bears the inscription “ To the memory of Thomas Henry Burke, Under Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

The Prüfening dedicatory inscription of 1119, composed in medieval Latin.

Each pillar is of height 40 feet, girth 3. 5 feet and weighs 200 ton., The inscription bears verses composed by the poet Vasula, the son of Kakka.

There was also found a large fragment of a marble slab, with an inscription composed by Pope Damasus, the text of which is well-known from an ancient copy.

when the treaty was concluded, he composed a " Harangue d ’ action de grâces ", wrote a commemorative inscription, and published Poèmes de la Paix.

The inscription on the tomb was composed by Ryle.

The inscription composed for his first wife's tombstone spoke of " a glorious Resurrection to eternal life ," but her painful illness and the death of all the children of his second marriage seem to have dampened if not extinguished the bereaved husband's faith.

The inscription on his tomb, which was composed by his Latin Secretary, Sir Oliver Starkey, the last Knight of the English Langue at the time of the Great Siege, states in Latin:

Vidal de Caldas Nogueira, in articles composed in 1957, suggest that: " The Romans would collect the rock for their constructions, monuments and many of the inscriptions in Olissipo ( Lisbon ) from the quarrys in Lisbon and Sintra, is not difficult to believe that this antique burgh were today exists Parede, they became active in this inscription industry from marble and granite.

A short while later, Mr RD Clark instituted the school motto ( derived from the Latin inscription he composed for the Colonial War Memorial, now in the foyer of Clark House ) and the badge of carbine-and-assegai, both of which were initially connected more with the school ’ s Old Boys ' Association than the school.

This design was fixed in the 1924 Soviet Constitution :" The State Emblem of the USSR is composed of a sickle and a hammer on a globe depicted in the rays of the sun and framed by ears of wheat, with the inscription " proletariats of the world, unite!