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.

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.

At the 1836 dedication of the Kirtland Temple the dedicatory prayer asks that God grant them the gift of tongues and at the end of the service Brigham Young speaks in tongues, another elder interprets it and then gives his own exhortation in tongues.

In one of the Spanish language dedication sessions at the dedication of the San Diego California Temple, Packer read the dedicatory prayer.

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.

Makeatutara made mistakes as he recited the dedicatory ( or baptismal ) incantations over Māui, which made it inevitable that Māui would die.

1555 ), revised for press Knox's work on predestination, which was published at Geneva in 1560, and contributed a dedicatory epistle to Christopher Goodman's ‘ How Superior Powers ought to be obeyed ’ ( Geneva, 1558 ), in which views similar to Knox's were adopted with regard to the ‘ regiment of women .’

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.

The burial at the center of Woodhenge was of a child which Cunnington interpreted as a dedicatory sacrifice.

Species of fraudulence begin with the ascription of the various biographies to different invented ' authors ', and continue with the dedicatory epistles to Diocletian and Constantine, the quotation of fabricated documents, the citation of non-existent authorities, the invention of persons ( extending even to the subjects of some of the minor biographies ), presentation of contradictory information to confuse an issue while making a show of objectivity, deliberately false statements, and the inclusion of material which can be shown to relate to events or personages of the late 4th century rather than the period supposedly being written about.

Both of the dedicatory poems which precede Dodona's Grove mention the volume, and indeed there are similarities between Barclay and Howell in their attitudes towards writing, but what they have to say equally points up their differences.

Also remarkable in this sense is the Fanum Iunonis of Malta ( of the Hellenistic period ) which has yielded dedicatory inscriptions to Astarte and Tanit.

In his previous narrative poem, Venus and Adonis ( 1593 ), Shakespeare had included a dedicatory letter to his patron, the Earl of Southampton, in which he promised to write a " graver work ".

) printed in front of Copernicus ' preface which was a dedicatory letter to Pope Paul III and which kept the title " Praefatio authoris " ( to acknowledge that the unsigned letter was not by the book's author ).

" Following a two-and-a-half hour sermon given by Church leader Sidney Rigdon, Smith offered a dedicatory prayer that had been prepared by a committee of church leaders, which he indicated was given to him by revelation.

The pronaos, which alone exists, resembles in style that of Apollonopolis Magna ( Edfu ), and was begun not earlier than the reign of Claudius ( 41-54 AD ), and completed in that of Vespasian, whose name and titles are carved on the dedicatory inscription over the entrance.

Many of these structures featured a top platform upon which a smaller dedicatory building was constructed, associated with a particular Maya deity.

The third tier, the top half of which survives, bears the main dedicatory inscription on one face.

Among his original compositions Musurus wrote a dedicatory epigram for Zacharias Kallierges ' edition of the Etymologicum Magnum, in which he praised the genius of the Cretans.

Remains of a Roman thermal establishment exist near the principal spring, the so-called Lago della Regina ( which is continually diminishing in size owing to the deposit left by the water ), and dedicatory inscriptions in honour of the waters have been found.

The Aetolians at this period embellished the sanctuary with astonishing numbers of bronze dedicatory statues but today only a few fragments-fingers and toes or horse's hooves-as well as the marble bases on which they stood, survive to illustrate this wealth.