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.

Three of Harrison's early wooden clocks have survived ; the first ( 1713 ) is at the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers ' Collection in Guildhall ; the second ( 1715 ), is in the Science Museum and the third ( 1717 ) is at Nostell Priory in Yorkshire, the face bearing the inscription " John Harrison Barrow ".

Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek lead sling bullets with a winged thunderbolt engraved on one side and the inscription " ΔΕΞΑΙ " ( Dexai ) meaning " take that " or " catch " on the other side, 4th century BC, from Athens, British Museum.

On its base ( fragments are now in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum ), an inscription praises him as “ everywhere and forever victorius .”

The earliest dated surviving sampler, housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, was made by Jane Bostocke who included her name and the date 1598 in the inscription.

* National Museum of Umbrian Archaeology, where one of the longest inscription in Etruscan is conserved, the so-called Cippus perusinus.

Their eighteenth-century maul with its 1827 inscription claiming that it was used by Wren for the foundation stone of St. Pauls, belonging to the Lodge and on display in the Freemasons ' Grand Museum, corroborates the story, which is debatable mainly because it would have been in the interests of the Lodge and the Craft to fabricate it.

A bronze helmet ( now in the British Museum ), with an inscription commemorating the event, was dedicated at Olympia.

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 inscription is currently housed in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, while a replica stands at Caesarea.

In his honor, a bronze memorial was erected in the Louisana State Museum with the inscription: " To honor Norbert Rillieux, born at New Orleans, Louisiana, March 18, 1806 and died at Paris, France, October 8, 1894.

From this town comes an inscription dating probably from early in the 3rd century BC ; it is cut upon a small bronze plate ( now in the Naples Museum ), which must have once been fixed to some votive object, dedicated to the god Declunus ( or the goddess Decluna ).

* a letter on the Sigean inscription on a marble slab found in the Troad, now in the British Museum

The Sanskrit inscription ( K. 5 ) of Tháp Mười ( known as " Pràsàt Prằṃ Lovêṅ " in Khmer ), which is now on display in the Museum of Vietnamese History in Ho Chi Minh City, refers to a Prince Guṇavarman, younger son ( nṛpasunu — bālo pi ) of a king Ja who was “ the moon of the Kauṇḍinya line (... kauṇḍiyaśaśaśinā ...) and chief “ of a realm wrested from the mud ”.

In China, in the 4th – 6th Centuries " Buddhist artisans used the names Shakyamuni and Maitreya interchangeably ... indicating both that the distinction between the two had not yet been drawn and that their respective iconographies had not yet been firmly set " An example is the stone sculpture found in the Qingzhou cache dedicated to Maitreya in 529 CE as recorded in the inscription ( currently in the Qingzhou Museum, Shandong ).

A copy of a 16th century original now kept in the Victoria and Albert Museum, there is an inscription woven into it that reads: " I have no refuge in the world other than thy threshold.

There are only three ancient sources on Burebista: Strabo: Geographica 7. 3. 5, 7. 3. 11 and 16. 2. 39 ( who spells his name Byrebistas and Boirebistas ); Jordanes: Getica 67 ( spells his name Buruista ); and a marble inscription found in Balchik, Bulgaria ( now found at the National Museum in Sofia ) which represents a decree by the citizens of Dionysopolis about Akornion.

* Assyriologist George Smith discovers an inscription recording a solar eclipse in the month of Sivan on British Museum Tablet K51, which he is able to link to 15 June 763 BC, the cornerstone of ancient Near Eastern chronology.

Much of the above biographical information comes from a stone inscription on the Ramkhamhaeng stele, now in the National Museum in Bangkok.

Image: Narmer tarkhan. jpg | Incised inscription on a vessel found at Tarkhan ( tomb 414 ), naming king Narmer ; Petrie Museum UC 16083.

The remnants of this inscription were found at Rome and are now kept in the Capitoline Museum.

One of those try-pots, having the inscription ‘ Johnson and Sons, Wapping Dock London ’ is preserved at the South Georgia Museum in Grytviken.

Some of the artefacts from the demolished temple were kept in the Lisbon Museum including the stone inscription by Kulakottan ( Kunakottan ).

Image: Pergamon Museum Berlin 2007085. jpg | Building inscription of King Nebuchadnezzar II

Neatly etched on the rock surface is a pin-men inscription of Ashoka Brāhmī script, more impressive than the much smaller replica positioned outside the entrance of the National Museum in Delhi.