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 ''.

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 writing system for it was devised in 1119 AD and an inscription using this system is known from 1185 ( see List of Jurchen inscriptions ).

It is first attested by an inscription dated to 1224 or 1225 AD and by the Secret History of the Mongols, written in 1228 ( see Mongolic languages ).

Sometimes the whole space is taken up with the inscription.

This word is usually conceded to be derived from the Hebrew ( Aramaic ), meaning " Thou art our father " ( אב לן את ), and also occurs in connection with Abrasax ; the following inscription is found upon a metal plate in the Carlsruhe Museum:

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!

The first known mention of the city of Akkad is in an inscription of Enshakushanna of Uruk, where he claims to have defeated Agade — indicating that it was in existence well before the days of Sargon of Akkad, whom the Sumerian King List claims to have built it.

The first universally accepted inscription containing the use of the 0 glyph is first recorded in the 9th century, in an inscription at Gwalior in Central India dated to 870.

A self-portrait, a drawing in silverpoint, is dated 1484 ( Albertina, Vienna ) “ when I was a child ," as his later inscription says.

Instead, the Hebrew name Ahasuerus accords with an inscription of the time that notes that Artaxerxes II was named also Arshu, understood as a shortening of Achshiyarshu the Babylonian rendering of the Persian Khshayarsha ( Xerxes ), through which the Hebrew Achashverosh ( Ahasuerus ) is derived.

The Behistun Inscription ( also Bistun or Bisutun, Modern Persian: بیستون < Old Persian: Bagastana, meaning " the place of god ") is a multi-lingual inscription located on Mount Behistun in the Kermanshah Province of Iran, near the city of Kermanshah in western Iran.

In effect, then, the inscription is to cuneiform what the Rosetta Stone is to Egyptian hieroglyphs: the document most crucial in the decipherment of a previously lost script.

There is some speculation that the inscription was added by Claudius himself decades later, and that he originally did not appear at all.

An inscription dating to 330 records the title of Alamannicus, so it is probable that his generals won a victory over the Alamanni.

The accompanying inscription is in Greek.

Additional evidence is given by one inscription on a metal plaque from Steinsel-Rëlent in Luxembourg, in the territory of the Celtic Treveri.

It is dated to the 5th century BC by the inscription on its cornice.

Immediately adjacent to the exit ( and overlooked by most tour guides ) is the inscription that mentions the Roman proconsul Gallio.

The Nørre Nærå Runestone is interpretted as having a " grave binding inscription " used to keep the deceased in its grave.

The homicide law is a highly fragmented inscription, but it does state that it is up to the victim ’ s relatives to prosecute a killer.

The inscription STT-VUJNA is an abbreviation for " Slobodni teritorij Trsta-Vojna uprava jugoslavenske narodne armije " or " Free Territory of Trieste-Military Administration of the Yugoslav People's Army " in Serbo-Croatian

While the crack in the bell appears to end at the abbreviation " Philad < sup > a </ sup >" in the last line of the inscription, that is merely the 19th century widened crack which was filed out in the hopes of allowing the bell to continue to ring ; a hairline crack, extending through the bell to the inside continues generally right and gradually moving to the top of the bell, through the word " and " in " Pass and Stow ", then through the word " the " before the word " Assembly " in the second line of text, and through the letters " rty " in the word " Liberty " in the first line.

Lucius is often identified as Dio's praenomen, but a Macedonian inscription, published in 1970, reveals the abbreviation, " Cl.

Furthermore, it appears in the inscription on St Cuthbert's coffin ( late 7th century ) in the abbreviation of the name Christ, where Greek ΧΡC is taken as Latin xps and rendered as runic.

Votive statue for the god Silvanus ( mythology ) | Silvanus ; the inscription ends with the abbreviation V. S. L. M.

An inscription of Swampy Cree language | Swampy Cree using Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, an abugida developed by Christian missionaries for Aboriginal Canadian languages

The slab on top carries the inscription (" Here lies a French soldier who died for the fatherland 1914 – 1918 ").

Such a treaty was seemingly remarkably effective, as the Bastarnae disappear, save for a single passing mention in Tacitus, from the Roman chronicles until c. AD 175, some 160 years after Augustus ' inscription was carved.

This list, published in July 2010, includes sites that may be nominated for inscription over the next 5 – 10 years.

Pasternak gave his lover a book of Petőfi with the inscription, " Petőfi served as a code in May and June 1947, and my close translations of his lyrics are an expression, adapted to the requirements of the text, of my feelings and thoughts for you and about you.

The reverse has the inscription and a space for the name of the recipient to be engraved.

inscription from the island of Ceos in the Cyclades catapult shooting competitions for the young ”.

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.

Additionally, according to Plutarch's essay on the meaning of the " E at Delphi "-- the only literary source for the inscription --- there was also inscribed at the temple a large letter E. Among other things epsilon signifies the number 5.

One inscription found at Axum, states that he conquered the nation of the Bogos, and returned thanks to his father, the god Mars, for his victory.

Derived from the epigramma " inscription " from ἐπιγράφειν epigraphein " to write oninscribe ", this literary device has been employed for over two millennia.

The Latin ethnonym " Germani " seems to be attested in the Fasti Capitolini inscription for the year 222 BCE-de Galleis Insvbribvs et Germ ( aneis )-where it may simply refer to " related " peoples, namely related to the Gauls.

The Old East Norse term for both Goths and Gotlanders seems to have been Gutar ( for instance, in the Gutasaga and in the runic inscription of the Rökstone ).

The inscription beneath this impressive mural expresses the desire of local people for the original canvas to be put on display in the town which inspired its creation: Guernica.

The district Aria of the Persian Achaemenid Empire is mentioned in the provincial lists that are included in various royal inscriptions, for instance, in the Behistun inscription of Darius I ( ca.

Angered by this snub, Eris arrived at the celebration with a golden apple from the Garden of the Hesperides, which she threw into the proceedings, upon which was the inscription καλλίστῃ ( kallistēi, " for the fairest one ").

A possible early kenning for " gold " ( walha-kurna " Roman / Gallic grain ") is attested in the Ancient Nordic runic inscription on the Tjurkö ( I )- C bracteate.

Also in English were added in script: " To my friend George, Lee Oswald, 5 / IV / 63 5, 1963 " Handwriting experts for the HSCA concluded the English inscription and signature were by Oswald.

Both sides bear the inscription " III VIR R P C ", meaning " One of Three Men for the Regulation of the Republic ".

Marcello Malpighi is buried in the church of the Santi Gregorio e Siro, in Bologna, where nowadays can be seen a marble monument to the scientist with an inscription in Latin remembering-among other things-his " SUMMUM INGENIUM / INTEGERRIMAM VITAM / FORTEM STRENUAMQUE MENTEM / AUDACEM SALUTARIS ARTIS AMOREM " ( great genius, honest life, strong and tough mind, daring love for the medical art ).

Malpighi is buried in the church of the Santi Gregorio e Siro, in Bologna, where nowadays can be seen a marble monument to the scientist with an inscription in Latin remembering-among other things-his " SUMMUM INGENIUM / INTEGERRIMAM VITAM / FORTEM STRENUAMQUE MENTEM / AUDACEM SALUTARIS ARTIS AMOREM " ( great genius, honest life, strong and tough mind, daring love for the medical art ).