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 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.

In 1992 one commentator who claimed to be able to contact Nostradamus under hypnosis even had him ' interpreting ' his own verse X. 6 ( a prediction specifically about floods in southern France around the city of Nîmes and people taking refuge in its collosse, or Colosseum, a Roman amphitheatre now known as the Arènes ) as a prediction of an undated attack on the Pentagon, despite the historical seer's clear statement in his dedicatory letter to King Henri II that his prophecies were about Europe, North Africa and part of Asia Minor.

The goddess was prominent during the reign of the First Dynasty pharaoh Den, whose image appears on stone vessel fragments from his tomb and is mentioned in a dedicatory entry in the Palermo Stone.

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.

Abbadie subsequently published a revised version of the French translation of the English liturgy used at this church, with an epistle dedicatory to George I.

The statues were dedicated on 9 January 2005, and at one of the dedicatory events the author Elmer Kelton was the guest speaker.

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 .’

They also were used as dedicatory offerings to the deities, and in the dramatic contests at the Dionysia the victorious choregus ( a wealthy citizen who bore the expense of equipping and training the chorus ) received a crown and a tripod.

While the title might seem better suited to the former book than the latter, a line from the dedicatory poem ( to " S. A .", possibly Selim Ahmed ) at the start of the book helps explain Lawrence's interpretation of the Biblical " seven pillars " and their relevance to the Arab Revolt:

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

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.

While it has long been claimed that he studied in Venice with Adrian Willaert, and that he was a singer at San Marco, no specific documentation of either of these events has been found ; some dedicatory material in his Venetian publications mentions him as a " disciple " or " follower ", but not specifically as a student.

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.

Human skulls had been placed right at the bottom of one of the enclosure ditches possibly as a dedicatory or ancestral offering.

It seems likely that Urbicus planned his campaign of attack from Corbridge in Northumberland, just to the rear of Hadrians Wall, as dedicatory inscriptions positively dated to the early 140s have been uncovered at the Antonine storage-depot there.

Nahshon was appointed by Moses, upon God's command, as prince of the Tribe of Judah, and though his tribe was fourth in the order of the Patriarchs, yet at the dedication of the Tabernacle he was the first to bring his dedicatory offering.

There is an introduction in English, and a dedicatory epistle to Owen Oglethorpe, president of Magdalen College, Oxford at that time and when Crowley had been a student and fellow there.

In the Lent of 358, Basil with many bishops was holding the dedicatory feast of a new church he had built at Ancyra, when he received a letter from George of Laodicea, relating how Eudoxius had approved of Aëtius, and begging Macedonius of Constantinople, Basil and the rest of the assembled bishops to decree the expulsion of Eudoxius and his followers from Antioch, else that great see were lost.

The dedicatory page of the Codex Egberti: it says " Egbertus " at top.