Among the Indo-European languages, its date of earliest written attestation is matched only by the now extinct Anatolian languages.

* The expression of the " Gnomes of Zürich ", Swiss bankers pictured as diminutive creatures hoarding gold in subterranean vaults, was coined in 1956 by Harold Wilson and gained currency in the 1960s ( OED notes the New Statesman issue of 27 November 1964 as earliest attestation ).

It is the Germanic language with the earliest attestation but has no modern descendants.

The OED notes 1579 as the date of the earliest attestation of such figurative use, in Lauretta the diuine Petrarches Goddesse.

Irenaeus is also our earliest attestation that the Gospel of John was written by John the apostle, and that the Gospel of Luke was written by Luke, the companion of Paul.

The earliest attestation for Týr's continental counterpart occurs in Gothic tyz " the t-rune " () in the 9th-century Codex Vindobonensis 795.

François Rabelais gives tarau as the name of one of the games played by Gargantua in his Gargantua and Pantagruel ; this is likely the earliest attestation of the French form of the name.

It is the site of discovery of the earliest traces of the Hittite language, and the earliest attestation of any Indo-European language, dated to the 20th century BC.

* 298 AD – earliest attestation of a foot-powered loom with a hint the invention arose at Tarsus

The earliest attestation of Hatshepsut as pharaoh occurs in the tomb of Ramose and Hatnofer where a collection of grave goods contained a single pottery jar or amphora from the tomb's chamber — which was stamped with the date Year 7.

Similarly, the Vedic Purushamedha ( literally " human sacrifice ") is already a purely symbolic act in its earliest attestation.

The earliest date of attestation must be pushed back to the 19th century.

The earliest attestation of the Mongolic title ' Khagan ' is among the Murong Xianbei between 283 to 289.

The earliest attestation of the Japanese language is in a Chinese document from 252 AD.

The latest event alluded to in his Epitoma rei militaris is the death of the Emperor Gratian ( 383 ); the earliest attestation of this work is a subscriptio by one Flavius Eutropius, writing in Constantinople in the year 450, which appears in one of two families of manuscripts, suggesting that a bifurcation of the manuscript tradition had already occurred.

Its earliest attestation is in Chrétien de Troyes ' late 12th century verse romance Perceval, li contes del graal, which contains the lines:

One hypothesis therefore reasons that, since Kawi is the earliest attestation of writing on the Philippines, then Baybayin may be descended from Kawi.

The earliest attestation of Mithraism is Plutarch's record of it being practised in 68BC by Cilician pirates, the first mithraists.

Scholars and historians since then viewed the reports on Venedi / Venethi by Tacitus, Pliny and Ptolemy as the earliest historical attestation of Slavs.

The earliest surviving attestation to Manetho is that of Josephus ' Contra Apionem, " Against Apion " nearly 4 centuries after Aegyptiaca was written.

In its earliest attestation, cooking was done by roasting meat and tubers in an open fire.

In any case, the Lepontic inscriptions are the earliest attestation of any form of Celtic.

The earliest attestation of Perkūnas seems to be in the Russian translation of the Chronicle of John Malalas ( 1261 ) where it speaks about the worship of " Перкоунови рекше громоу ", and in the Livonian Rhymed Chronicle ( around 1290 ) which mentions the idol Perkūnė.

20 ) contains earliest known reference to Latrunculi ( often confused with Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum, Ovid's game mentioned below ).

Knopfler had long mentioned Atkins as one of his earliest influences.

Even whom should be considered the earliest known king is contested: although C. Conti Rossini proposed that Zoskales of Axum, mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, should be identified with one Za Haqle mentioned in the Ethiopian King Lists ( a view embraced by later historians of Ethiopia such as Yuri M. Kobishchanov and Sergew Hable Sellasie ), G. W. B.

The letter is quoted or mentioned by the earliest of sources, and is included in every ancient canon, including that of Marcion.

The earliest record of the name " Afghan " (" Abgân ") being mentioned is by Shapur I of the Sassanid Empire during the 3rd century CE which is later recorded in the form of " Avagānā " by the Indian astronomer Varāha Mihira in his 6th century CE Brihat-samhita.

* The earliest radiocarbon dating mentioned on the web is 2725 +- 185 BCE ( uncalibrated ) or 3338, 3213, 3203 BCE calibrated, giving a midpoint of 3251 BCE.

The year 1158 is assumed to be the foundation date, which is only the earliest date the city is mentioned in a document.

Among the earliest evidence of the game are fragments of a pottery board and several rock cuts found in Aksumite Ethiopia in Matara ( now in Eritrea ) and Yeha ( in Ethiopia ), which are dated by archaeologists to between the 6th and 7th century AD ; the game may have been mentioned by Giyorgis of Segla in his 14th century Ge ' ez text " Mysteries of Heaven and Earth ," where he refers to a game called qarqis, a term used in Ge ' ez to refer to both Gebet ' a ( Mancala ) and Sant ' araz ( modern sent ' erazh, Ethiopian Chess ).

Although Mach is often mentioned as one of the earliest examples of a microkernel, not all versions of Mach are microkernels.

" may be further understood not only in the spiritual understandings of many in Indonesia but further in the light of numerous representations of the rooster or cock as a religious vessel found in the Catacombs from the earliest period including a painting from the Catacomb of St. Priscilla ( mentioned in all the ancient liturgical sources and known as the " Queen of the Catacombs " in antiquity ) reproduced in Giovanni Gaetano Bottari's folio of 1754, where the Good Shepherd is depicted as feeding the lambs, with a crowing cock on His right and left hand.

" The earliest record of doubts concerning the authorship of the letter were recorded by Origen ( c. 185 – 254 ), though Origen mentioned no explanation for the doubts, nor did he give any indication concerning the extent or location.

One of the earliest taxes mentioned in the Bible of a half-shekel per annum from each adult Jew ( Ex.

As first mentioned in regard to earliest ZBD closed-core transformers, transformers are generally considered to be either core form or shell form in design depending on the type of magnetic circuit used in winding construction ( see image ).

So far evidence for the earliest periods of the Early Bronze Age in Mesopotamia is very limited. Mesh-Ane-pada is the first king mentioned in the Sumerian King List, and appears to have lived in the 26th century BC.

Zan Ganassa, whose troupe is first mentioned in Mantua in the late 1560s, was one of the earliest known actors believed to have performed the part.

The Chudes, as mentioned by a monk Nestor in the earliest Russian chronicles, were the Ests or Esthonians.

The earliest, as already mentioned, bear merely the figure of a parsley-leaf on the obverse.

In none of these earliest references to Christianity ’ s arrival in Britain is Joseph of Arimathea mentioned.

That Arthur is not mentioned in the earliest source, Gildas, was noticed as early as the 12th century.

" Yavadvipa " is mentioned in India's earliest epic, the Ramayana.

In the earlier of the two 1236 documents, a Johann " castellanus de Slupcz " is mentioned as a witness, Schmidt considers this to be the earliest mention of the gard, since a castellany required the existence of a gard.

The earliest known member of the family was Berthold I, Count in the Breisgau ( died 982 ), who was first mentioned in 962.

The dithyramb, a genre of lyrics traditionally sung to Dionysus, was later developed into narratives illustrating heroic myths ; Simonides is the earliest poet known to have composed in this enlarged form ( the geographer Strabo mentioned a dithyramb, Memnon, in which Simonides located the hero's tomb in Syria, indicating that he didn't compose only on legends of Dionysius.