If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.

The regulations require the inscription of each individual ( male or female, adult or child ) on a separate card ( fiche ).

Each adult is held personally responsible for assuring his inscription and obtaining an identification card which must be shown on demand.

The oldest text in Phoenician script is an inscription on the sarcophagus of King Ahiram.

A runic inscription on a fibula found at Bad Ems reflects Christian pious sentiment ( and is also explicitly marked with a Christian cross ), reading god fura dih deofile ᛭ (" God for / before you, Theophilus!

* 1864 – The U. S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.

Early evidence of their use in Britain includes: an equal hour horary quadrant from 1396, in England, a 1445 inscription on the tower of Heathfield Church, Sussex ; a 1448 inscription on a wooden lych-gate of Bray Church, Berkshire ; and a 1487 inscription on the belfry door at Piddletrenthide church, Dorset ; and in Scotland a 1470 inscription on the tomb of the first Earl of Huntly in Elgin Cathedral.

The inscription on Aeschylus's gravestone makes no mention of his theatrical renown, commemorating only his military achievements:

In Athens, Paul visits an altar with an inscription dedicated to an unknown god, so when he gives his speech on the Areopagos, he proclaims to worship that same unknown god whom he identifies as the Christian God.

Pope Martin V protested in vain against the inscription on the sarcophagus: " John the former pope ".

We went into Mrs. Monmouth's library, which had low bookshelves all along the walls, and above them a Modigliani portrait, a Jackson Pollock twelve feet long, and a gorgeous Miro with a yellow background, that looked like an inscription from a Martian tomb.

Upon his tomb lies the following inscription:

Risdon also stated that the original tomb bore an inscription: " They fyrste that fyndes and bringes mee to my grave, The priorie of Plimstoke they shall have ", but no sign of this has ever been found.

Borgia was originally buried in a marble tomb beneath the altar of the Church of Santa Maria in Viana with an inscription " Here lies in little earth one who was feared by all, who held peace and war in his hand.

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 Latin inscription on their tomb, " Regno consortes & urna, hic obdormimus Elizabetha et Maria sorores, in spe resurrectionis ", translates to " Consorts in realm and tomb, here we sleep, Elizabeth and Mary, sisters, in hope of resurrection ".

Siloam Inscription, lintel inscription, found over the doorway of a tomb, has been ascribed to his comptroller Shebna.

The inscription on his tomb contains Persian words penned which state: اگرفردوس روی زمین است همین است و همین است و همین است ( If there is a paradise on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this!

The labyrinth retains its connection with death and a triumphant return: at Hadrumentum in North Africa ( now Sousse ), a Roman family tomb has a fourfold labyrinth mosaic floor with a dying minotaur in the center and a mosaic inscription: " Enclosed here, he loses life " ( Kern 169 ; Kerényi fig. 31 ).

The Latin inscription on their tomb, Regno consortes et urna, hic obdormimus Elizabetha et Maria sorores, in spe resurrectionis ( affixed there by James VI of Scotland when he succeeded Elizabeth as King James I of England ) translates to " Consorts in realm and tomb, here we sleep, Elizabeth and Mary, sisters, in hope of resurrection ".

A plain tomb was erected in his honour at Brixellum, with the simple inscription Diis Manibus Marci Othonis.

The following inscription honoring Sixtus was placed on his tomb in the catacomb of Callixtus by Pope Damasus I:

The inscription on Gerbert's tomb reads in part Iste locus Silvestris membra sepulti venturo Domino conferet ad sonitum (" This place, at the advent of the Lord, will yield to the sound the last trumpet the buried members of Sylvester II ", mis-read as " will make a sound ") has given rise to the curious legend that his bones will rattle in that tomb just before the death of a Pope.

The tomb of Descartes ( middle, with detail of the inscription ), in the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris

The tomb of Shah Jahan bears a calligraphic inscription that reads ; " He traveled from this world to the banquet-hall of Eternity on the night of the twenty-sixth of the month of Rajab, in the year 1076 Hijri.

Seven years later, on the anniversary of what would have been her 100th birthday, her husband placed an inscription on her tomb that read in part:

Many monuments were erected, and an inscription on his tomb door declares the king had " spent his life in fashioning the images of the gods ".

On the southern wall of the sanctuary is the tomb and epitaph he erected for himself and his wives, detailing in a lengthy Latin inscription his ancestry and accomplishments, including his role as peacemaker between the Christian nations of Europe and a curiously altered portion detailing his curbing of heresy.

* Saddam Hussein considered himself to be the reincarnation of Nebuchadnezzar and had the inscription " To King Nebuchadnezzar in the reign of Saddam Hussein " inscribed on bricks inserted into the walls of the ancient city of Babylon during a reconstruction project he initiated ; he named one of his Republican Guards divisions after Nebuchadnezzar.

A Neo-Babylonian royal inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II on a stele from Babylon, claimed to have been found in the 1917 excavation by Robert Koldewey, and of uncertain authenticity, reads: " Etemenanki Zikkurat Babibli of Babylon I made it, the wonder of the people of the world, I raised its top to heaven, made doors for the gates, and I covered it with bitumen and bricks.

An inscription on one of the fired bricks states that it was laid during the reign of King Kurigalzu II.

An inscription of Nebuchadrezzar II, the " Borsippa inscription ," tells how he restored the temple of Nabu, " the temple of the seven spheres ," with " bricks of noble lapis lazuli.

On the left bank of the Miljacka there were once found Roman bricks and an inscription indicating a construction yard and, nearby, a bathhouse.

Historians disagree on whether building inscriptions at Isin, for the Egalmaḫ of Gula, or in Larsa, on bricks bearing a sixteen-line inscription of the restoration of the Ebabbar temple for Šamaš, should be assigned to the earlier King.

An inscription identifies Callicrates as one of the architects of the Classical circuit wall of the Acropolis ( IG I < sup > 3 </ sup > 45 ), and Plutarch further states ( loc cit ) that he contracted to build the Middle of three amazing walls linking Athens and Piraeus.

In a Linear B ( Mycenean Greek ) inscription on a tablet found at Pylos dated 1400 – 1200 BC, John Chadwick reconstructs the name of a goddess * Preswa who could be identified with Persa, daughter of Oceanus and finds speculative the further identification with the first element of Persephone.

Cetius Faventinus speaks of " Vitruvius Polio aliique auctores " in his epitome ; it is possible that the cognomen derives from this mention by Cetius, meaning Vitruvius, Polio, and others – further confusing the cognomen, an inscription in Verona names Lucius Vitruvius Cordo and an inscription from Thilbilis North Africa ( near Guelma ) names Marcus Vitruvius Mamurra.

In addition, further texts and monuments from Persepolis have been found, including a fragmentary Old Iranian inscription from Gherla, Romania ( Harmatta ) and a letter from Darius to Gadates, preserved in a Greek text of the Roman period.

A further inscription to her has been found near Stuttgart, Germany.

The Hathigumpha inscription, written by the king of Kalinga, Kharavela, has been interpreted to describe the presence of the Greek king " Demetrius " with his army in eastern India, possibly as far as the city of Rajagriha about 70 km southeast of Pataliputra and one of the foremost Buddhist sacred cities, but claims that Demetrius ultimately retreated to Mathura on hearing of Kharavela's military successes further south:

In a region further from there is the burial of Pope Cornelius, whose tomb still has its original inscription giving him the title of martyr and, on its sides, splendid paintings with figures in 7th and 8th century Byzantine style representing popes Sixtus II and Cornelius and the African bishops Cyprian and Ottatus.

In late July 2005, the university announced that although it had officially renamed the building and all university publications and offices will refer to it solely as Memorial Hall, the university would neither appeal the matter further, nor remove the inscription and pay damages.

On the right side of the steps ( provided to reach the temple ), there is a stone inscription by Sri Krishna deva Raya of Vijayanagar, and a little further up, the foot prints of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu can be seen.

" He was particularly scathing about tests carried out by the Israel police forensics laboratory that he said had probably contaminated the ossuary, making it impossible to carry out further scientific tests on the inscription.

An inscription in the Swedish Chapel dating to the Swedish War states " Bis hierher und nicht weiter kamen die schwedischen Reiter " (" The Swedish knights came as far as here but no further.

There can be a very clear view, roughly south over Dorking and further towards Gatwick Airport and right across to the South Downs, including Chanctonbury Ring and Devil's Dyke, Sussex ( a distance of 26 miles, according to the inscription on the viewing platform ).

The caravanserai of Hekimhan is unique in having, underneath the usual inscription in Arabic with information relating to the edifice, two further inscriptions in Armenian and Syriac, since it was constructed by the sultan Kayqubad I's doctor ( hekim ) who is thought to have been a Christian by his origins, and to have converted to Islam.

Most examples feature a blue rectangular shield with a white inscription ( similar to German Autobahn signage ) with further examples of white on green and black on white rectangular shields.

It is a possibility that further work was done on the gate at a later date which was recorded by the internal inscription.

In any event, there is no further historical mention of the Caledonians for a century save for a c. AD 230 inscription from Colchester which records a dedication by a man calling himself the nephew ( or grandson ) of " Uepogenus, Caledonian ".

However, following the discovery of further bones and an inscription, on June 26, 1968 Pope Paul VI announced that the relics of St. Peter had been identified.

The discovery of the altar citing Lucullus further validates the inscription found by Woodford.

Kenrick further went on to note that the distinction between colonia and municipium " are hardly applicable to Britain ", observing that " I am not aware that any inscription exists, in which the name of municipium is given to a town in Roman Britain ".

He also " particularly scathing about tests carried out by the Israel police forensics laboratory that he said had probably contaminated the ossuary, making it impossible to carry out further scientific tests on the inscription.

Two further children are uncertain ; a single inscription refers to a Rubellius Drusus, while Juvenal ( Satire VIII.

The frequently ignored final sentence of this inscription provides further evidence: “ And the height of the rock above the heads of the laborers was 100 cubits .” This indicates that the engineers were well aware of the distance to the surface above the tunnel at various points in its progression.

The top inscription further reads: " F. PETRUS DAUBUSSON M HOSPITALIS IHER ".