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 ).

An inscription of Swampy Cree language | Swampy Cree using Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, an abugida developed by Christian missionaries for Aboriginal Canadian languages

In Phrygia a number of funerary stone inscriptions use the term Chrestians, with one stone inscription using both terms together, reading: " Chrestians for Christians ".

The inscription on the One Ring, written in the Black Speech of Mordor using tengwar

This is supported by records of an inscription from Ovid's Ars Amatoria, which was on the now-lost original frame of the Arnolfini Portrait, and by the many Latin inscriptions in van Eyck paintings, using the Roman alphabet, then reserved for educated men.

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 tradition it was created in 1283 by King Ramkhamhaeng the Great (). Replica of the Ramkhamhaeng inscription, the oldest inscription using proto-Thai script

This coin was struck with an edge inscription using a six-segmented collar ( virole brisée ) of Droz ’ own invention at the Paris Mint.

Old Malay was written using Pallava and Kawi script, as evident from several inscription stones in the Malay region.

During a divination session, the shell or bone was anointed with blood, and in an inscription section called the " preface ", the date was recorded using the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, and the diviner name was noted.

The inscription is partially encrypted in two ways ; by displacement and by using special cipher runes.

The inscription is intentionally challenging to read, using kennings in the manner of Old Norse skaldic poetry, and demonstrating the carver's command of different alphabets and writing styles ( including code ).

Part C1 says that the inscription was done at night, and not by using steel.

The inscription on each side of the bridge is to Clarke Adam, a Hungarian name using Eastern Name Order, one of very few English names that have been placed in that order.

The inscription is written in the Glagolitic script, exhibiting features of Church Slavonic of Croatian recension, such as writing ( j ) u for ( j ) ǫ, e for ę, i for y, and using one jer only ( ъ ).

The main theme is the inscription of Irish language place names in an anglicised form, using a phonetic rendering for British anglophone ears of an approximate Irish pronunciation.

In 1916, Alan Gardiner, using sound values derived from the alphabet hypothesis, translated a collection of signs as לבעלת ( to the Lady ) One of the instances of this collection of signs was on the small stone sphinx, which contained a bilingual inscription: The Egyptian reads The beloved of Hathor, the mistress of turquoise, and according to Gardiner's translation, the Proto-Sinaitic reads ( the beloved of the Lady ; beloved ), with the final t of ( Lady ) not surviving.

Even Rudolf's gravestone in the Stephansdom in Vienna carries an inscription enciphered using the Alphabetum Kaldeorum, which gives the names and titles of the duke.

This inscription, written in Sanskrit using the Pallava script, tells of the erection of a lingga ( a symbol of Shiva ) on the hill in the Kunjarakunja area, located on a noble island called Yawadwipa ( Java ) which was blessed with abundance of rice and gold.

According to a Kalasan inscription dated 778 AD, written in Sanskrit using Pranagari script, the temple was erected by the will of Guru Sang Raja Sailendravamçatilaka ( the Jewel of Sailendra family ) that succeed to persuade Maharaja Tejapurnapana Panangkaran ( in other part of the inscription also called as Kariyana Panangkaran ) to construct a holy building for the goddess ( boddhisattvadevi ) Tara and also build a vihara ( monastery ) for buddhist monks from Sailendra family's realm.

This inscription represents one of the first known mention of the Buddha as a deity, using the Indian bhakti word Bhagavat (" Lord ", " All-embracing personal deity "), suggesting the emergence of Mahayana doctrines in Buddhism.

On the obverse of the star is Sultan Abdul Mejid's royal cipher surrounded by an inscription on a gold-bordered circle of red enamel ; all on a star of seven triple quills with small crescents and five-pointed stars between them, suspended from a red enameled crescent and star suspender with green enameled edges.

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.

The earliest runes ( an inscription in North Germanic ) that have been found were inscribed on an arrowhead dating from about 200 AD.

Meanwhile, Flom found a strong apparent divergence between the runes used in the Kensington inscription and those in use during the 14th century.

For example, to write EINN ( one ) the runes E-I-N were used ( writing customs avoided having the same rune twice in a row for identical sounds ) and indeed the word EN ( one ) is in the Kensington inscription.

Many runes in the inscription deviate from known medieval runes, but in 2004 it was discovered that these appear along with pentadic runes in the 1883 notes of a 16-year-old journeyman tailor with an interest in folk music, Edward Larsson.

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 ".

An inscription in smaller runes below this gives the translation into English: " Balin, son of Fundin, Lord of Moria ".

Theories of the existence of separate Gothic runes have been advanced, even identifying them as the original alphabet from which the Futhark were derived, but these have little support in findings ( mainly the spearhead of Kovel, with its right-to-left inscription, its T-shaped tiwaz, and its rectangular dagaz ).

Having as many as 200 runes, it is the longest known inscription in the Elder Futhark, but certain runes are transitional towards the Younger Futhark.

The Kylver stone, listed in the Rundata catalog as runic inscription G 88, is a Swedish runestone which dates from about 400 CE notable for its listing of each of the runes in the elder futhark.

Runiform may refer to a script or inscription " similar to runes ".

He conjectured that there had been four runes in the original inscription, before the first rune which is visible today.

Why the inscription does not name the buried person, but only the carver of the runes, remains an open question.

Most scholars date the inscription to the 7th century and it is carved with a type of runes that form an intermediate version between the Elder Futhark and the Younger Futhark.

The inscription consists of some 143 runes, written boustrophedon, supplemented by an engraving of a fish.

Ignoring what seem to be bind runes at the start of the inscription, he offered this transliteration:

According to Westlund, Lindquist's attempts at deciphering the " bind runes " at the beginning of the inscription are misguided.

To support his claim he compares the runes with an inscription found near Novgorod in 1983 and treated by the Russian runologist Elena Melnikova in 1987.

Most scholars date the inscription to the 7th century and it is carved with a type of runes that form an intermediate version between the Elder Futhark and the Younger Futhark.

The runes were first described around 1600, and Reginald Bainbrigg of Appleby recorded the inscription for the Britannia of William Camden.