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The dedicatory inscription in the fresco by Melozzo da Forlì in the Vatican Palace records: " You gave your city temples, streets, squares, fortifications, bridges and restored the Acqua Vergine as far as the Trevi ..." In addition to restoring the aqueduct that provided Rome an alternative to the river water that had made the city famously unhealthy, he restored or rebuilt over 30 of Rome's dilapidated churches, among them San Vitale ( 1475 ) and Santa Maria del Popolo, and added seven new ones.
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Although he was primarily associated with Mercury, Visucius was also sometimes linked to the Roman god Mars, as a dedicatory inscription to " Mars Visucius " and Visucia, Visicius ' female counterpart, was found in Gaul.
The gens Iulia had gentilician cults at Bovillae where a dedicatory inscription to Vediove has been found in 1826 on an ara.
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.
The fort of Cilurnum along Hadrian's Wall was dedicated to the goddess Disciplina, as witnessed by an extant dedicatory inscription on a stone altar found in 1978.
The given name " Esunertus " (" strength of Esus ") occurs at least once as an epithet of Mercury on a dedicatory inscription.
Above the figures is a dedicatory inscription and below them in very low relief is bird, of a raven.
He offered to pay for construction of the Temple of Athena to designs of the noted architect Pytheos, if it would be dedicated by him, which it was, in 323 BCE ; the dedicatory inscription is in the British Museum.
The later village lay at the foot of the hill on the eastern edge of the high-road, and its curia, with a dedicatory inscription to M. Aurelius by the Senatus Fidenatium, was excavated in 1889.
A dedicatory inscription from Smyrna describes a 1st – 2nd century sanctuary to " God Himself " as the most exalted of a group of six deities, including clothed statues of Plouton Helios and Koure Selene, " Pluto the Sun " and " Kore the Moon.
As a medieval example for the same technique he goes on to cite the Prüfening dedicatory inscription.
* A Buddhist reliquary found in Bajaur bears a dedicatory inscription referring to " the 14th day of the month of Kārttika " of a certain year in the reign of " Mahārāja Minadra " (" Great King Menander "):
Above the main cornice rises a high, weighty 4. 40m high attic on which is a central tablet bearing the dedicatory inscription.
The modern 2 ‑ lane road, the SS 3 Flaminia, still uses Vespasian's tunnel, the emperor's dedicatory inscription still in place ; remnants of the earlier tunnel can also be seen.
The dedicatory inscription records the Basilica as the accomplishment of a vow by Alexandre Legentil and Hubert Rohault de Fleury, ratified by Joseph-Hippolyte Guibert, Archbishop of Paris.
She appears in numerous literary sources, including an official dedicatory inscription at Pergamon.
The dedicatory inscription under the Parshvanath image at Siddhachalam
The spandrels usually depicted flying Victories, while the attic was often inscribed with a dedicatory inscription naming and praising the triumphator.
The high medieval Prüfening dedicatory inscription, composed in Latin and stamped in Roman square capitals
A dedicatory inscription identifies the donor as one pater Cnaeus Arrius Claudianus, perhaps of the same clan as Titus Arrius Antoninus ' mother.
From the fact that no mention whatever is made of this alleged miracle until a few hundred years later, not even by Sixtus III in his eight-line dedicatory inscription ... it would seem that the legend has no historical basis.
The dedicatory inscription on the triumphal arch, Sixtus Episcopus plebi Dei, ( Sixtus the bishop to the people of God ) is an indication of that Pope's role in the construction.
The two gods are mentioned together in a dedicatory inscription found in the ruins of the temple of Hercules at Lanuvium, whose cult was ancient and second in importance only to that of Juno Sospita.
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.
A dedicatory inscription is carved into the east and west flanks of the pyramid, so as to be visible from both sides.
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The Arician wood sanctuary near the lake of Nemi was Latin confederal as testified by the dedicatory epigraph quoted by Cato.
This temple has an architrave with a long dedicatory text bearing Hatshepsut's famous denunciation of the Hyksos that has been translated by James P. Allen.
' The same words were used by Sigmund Freud as the dedicatory motto for his seminal book The Interpretation of Dreams, figuring Acheron as psychological underworld beneath the conscious mind.
All of them were told to him by men, but a minority of dedicatory prefaces are offered to women.
Bandello writes that the dedicatory prefaces to the nobility or to worthy persons are useful to him as a shield in case someone becomes offended by one of the stories and is tempted to attack him ( part 2, story 32 ).
Délie consists of 449 dizains ( 10-line epigrammes ) preceded by a dedicatory " huitain " to his mistress, (" A sa Délie ").
The new edition contains three new dedicatory epistles, signed by Gascoigne, which apologize for some offense that the original edition had caused and effect to transfer sole responsibility for the book's content to Gascoigne himself.
Alan Cameron notes that Cassiodorus and Boethius both refer to him as " Macrobius Theodosius ", while he was known during his lifetime as " Theodosius ": the dedication to the De differentiis is addressed Theodosius Symmacho suo (" Theodosius to his Symmachus "), and by the dedicatory epistle to Avianus's Fables, where he is addressed as Theodosi optime.
His increasing reputation as both performer and improviser continued to make Franck much in demand for inaugural or dedicatory recitals of new or rebuilt Cavaillé-Coll organs: Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély's new instrument at Saint-Sulpice ( 1862 ) and later for organs at Notre-Dame, Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, and La Trinité ; for some of these instruments, Franck had acted ( by himself or with Camille Saint-Saëns ) as consultant.
The Arte of English Poesie was entered at Stationers ' Hall in 1588, and published in the following year with a dedicatory letter to Lord Burghley written by the printer Richard Field, who professed ignorance of the writer's name and position.
The theory that this is a religious text, although still untranslated, is strengthened by recurring words and phrases that are surmised to have liturgical or dedicatory meanings.
At Woodhenge, a central burial of a child was interpreted by its excavators as a dedicatory offering.
Inscriptions offer evidence on the following Roman monuments: an aqueduct constructed by Hadrian and restored by Alexander Severus bears a dedicatory inscription at Arapaj, a short distance from Durazzo: ( Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum III, 1-709 ); the Roman temple of Minerva ; the Temple of Diana ( CIL III, 1-602 ), which is perhaps the one mentioned by Appian ( BCiv.
As part of the event, the dedicatory prayer was followed by a " hosanna shout "— a show of gratitude that dates to the early days of the Latter Day Saint movement.
He continued writing verse anthems, and his collection of 28 madrigals, the Songs of 3, 4, 5 and 6 parts was finally published in 1622 with a dedicatory poem by his half-brother John Tomkins ( circa 1587-1638 ), now organist of King's College, Cambridge ( later of St Paul's and of the Chapel Royal ), with whom Thomas maintained an intimate and loving relationship.
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The dedicatory inscription, of the Temple of Athena which today is in the British Museum, records that the founder was Alexander the Great.
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In the presence of members of the Hitler Jugend, the Deutsches Jungvolk, the Bund Deutscher Mädel, and both the SA and the SS, Gauleiter Gustav Simon gave the dedicatory address.
James Ross Snowden of Philadelphia gave the dedicatory address.
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