The subjects are mythological, and chiefly grotesque, with various inscriptions, in which ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ often occurs, alone or with other words.

Latin inscriptions in Aquitania preserve a number of words with cognates in reconstructed proto-Basque, for instance the personal names Nescato and Cison ( neskato and gizon mean " young girl " and " man " respectively in modern Basque ).

The phonology is known through the alternation of Greek and Etruscan letters in some inscriptions ( for example, the Iguvine Tables ), and many individual words are known through loans into or from Greek and Latin, as well as explanations of Etruscan words by ancient authors.

In the earliest inscriptions, the words are continuous.

Shortly after Evans died, Alice Kober noted that certain words in Linear B inscriptions had changing word endings — perhaps declensions in the manner of Latin or Greek.

The scholar Iravatham Mahadevan proved that Kannada was already a language of rich oral tradition earlier than 3rd century B. C., and based on the native Kannada words found in Prakrit and Sanskrit inscriptions of that period, Kannada must have been spoken by a widespread and stable populations.

Terryl Givens has suggested that the characters are early examples of Egyptian symbols being used " to transliterate Hebrew words and vice versa ," that Demotic is a " reformed Egyptian ," and that the mixing of a Semitic language with modified Egyptian characters is demonstrated in inscriptions of ancient Syria and Palestine.

Its last use with reference to the emperors is in inscriptions of Gratian ( reigned 375 – 383 ) who, however, then decided to omit the words " pontifex maximus " from his title .< ref >" Gratian.

The Etruscans, as evidenced by the inscriptions, used several words: capen ( Sabine cupencus ), maru ( Umbrian maron -), eisnev, hatrencu ( priestess ).

" He did find, however, a vocabulary identified as Sabine of about 36 words in glosses by Roman authors ( such as Varro ) on other Greek and Latin authors and inscriptions.

However, not infrequently in inscriptions a vertical line, and in manuscripts a single (·), double (:), or triple interpunct ( dot ) was used to divide words.

The earliest Greek inscriptions used interpuncts, as was common in the writing systems which preceded it, but soon the practice of scriptio continua, continuous writing in which all words ran together without separation became common.

He came across several Roman inscriptions, though he was unable to read most of them, complaining of one that it was made up of " letters for whole words, and 2. or 3. letters conveid in one ".

Most of the inscriptions are very short, but there is one longer inscription, a bronze tablet inscribed with a text of 35 words.

# Some inscriptions have-ζ-written for a combination-ς + δ-resulting from separate words, e. g. θεοζοτος for θεος δοτος " god-given ".

# The Greek inscriptions almost never write ζ in words like or, so there must have been a difference between this sound and the sound of.

Contra: a few inscriptions do seem to suggest that ζ was pronounced like σδ ; furthermore, all words with written σδ are morphologically transparent, and written σδ may simply be echoing the morphology.

The second, called by some " tomb of the Innocentiores " ( a burial club which owned it ), has a refined stucco ceiling, Latin inscriptions in Greek characters, and a graffito with the initials of the Greek words for " Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour ".

Extant Lydian texts now number slightly over one hundred, all but a few having been found in or near the Lydian capital but fewer than thirty of the inscriptions consist of more than a few words and are reasonably complete.

inscriptions include many epitaphs, which typically begin with the words eś wãnaś (" this grave "), as well as short graffiti.

The dove appears in many funerary inscriptions in the Roman catacombs, sometimes accompanied by the words in pace ( Latin for " in peace ").

Although the earliest written examples of Frisian — stray words in a Latin context — are from approximately the 9th century, there are a few examples of runic inscriptions from the region which are older and in a very early form of the Frisian language.

These runic writings however usually consist of no more than inscriptions of a single or few words.

At Eretria the identity of an excavated 7th and 6th century temple to Apollo Daphnephoros, " Apollo, laurel-bearer ", or " carrying off Daphne ", a " place where the citizens are to take the oath ", is identified in inscriptions.

The earliest known texts in a Turkic language are the Orkhon inscriptions, of which the earliest dates from around 720 AD and the latest from 735 AD ( Miller 1971: 3 ).

Alemannic runic inscriptions such as those on the Pforzen buckle are among the earliest testimonies of Old High German.

* Areto and Iphito, two little-known Amazons, whose names are only attested in inscriptions on artefacts.

Abated, an ancient technical term applied in masonry and metal work to those portions which are sunk beneath the surface, as in inscriptions where the ground is sunk round the letters so as to leave the letters or ornament in relief.

The effects of this are commonly seen on old gravestones, where acid rain can cause the inscriptions to become completely illegible.

Inside the mosque there are 192 monumental wall inscriptions written by the famous calligraphers of that period.

These Orkhon inscriptions are the first known texts in the Old Turkic language.

The only clues for its possible existence are Persian inscriptions that refer to two places called " Saparda ": one area in Media and another in Asia Minor, debated to be Sardis.

Nestorian graves dating to 1338 – 9 near Lake Issyk Kul in Kyrgizstan have inscriptions referring to plague and are thought by many epidemiologists to mark the outbreak of the epidemic, from which it could easily have spread to China and India.

Though belonging to the same Semitic ethnic group, they are to be differentiated from the Aramean stock ; and the Assyrian king Sennacherib, for example, is careful in his inscriptions to distinguish them.

Some examples of Cirth writings are the inscription on Balin's tomb in Moria and the inscriptions on the top of the title pages for The Lord of the Rings.

The four pillars set up by Cão on his two voyages have all been discovered in situ, and the inscriptions on two of them from Cape Santa Maria and Cape Cross, dated 1482 and 1485 respectively, are still to be read and have been printed ; the Cape Cross padrão is now at Kiel ( replaced on the spot by a granite facsimile ); those from the Congo estuary and the more southerly Monte Negro are in the Museum of the Lisbon Geographical Society.

In those inscriptions that bear their names, Diocletian and his companions are referred to as " restorers of the whole world ", men who succeeded in " defeating the nations of the barbarians, and confirming the tranquility of their world ".

" Other dated inscriptions are used to determine a floruit for GDRT ( interpreted as representing a Ge ' ez name such as Gadarat, Gedur, Gadurat or Gedara ) around the beginning of the 3rd century.

On the other hand, many inscriptions are highly abbreviated and often casually formed, so the identification of individual letters is sometimes difficult.

Many bear inscriptions naming the persons depicted in the scenes, for which reason they are often called picture bilinguals.

The district Aria of the Persian Achaemenid Empire is mentioned in the provincial lists that are included in various royal inscriptions, for instance, in the Behistun inscription of Darius I ( ca.

The Italic languages are first attested in writing from Umbrian and Faliscan inscriptions dating to the 7th century BC.

Khazar inscriptions are mainly in an eastern Turkish runic script.

The rounds often depict Paul Kruger and a springbok antelope, some even blatantly copying the design of the Krugerrands themselves, though the inscriptions are altered.