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 ".

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.

German language | German inscription of the text, " One Lord, One faith, One baptism ," ( Ephesians 4: 5 ).

One inscription gives the address of a woman named Novellia Primigenia of Nuceria, a prostitute, apparently of great beauty, whose services were much in demand.

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

One of the plates had already been broken by that time with only part of the inscription preserved: Liste est glaud ... h Bolezlai Duc ... (" This is a sword of ... Duke Boleslaus ..."); the inscription on the other plate continued: Cum quo ei Dn SOS Omnipotens Salvator auxiletur adsus partes amen (" With whom is the Omnipotent Lord and Savior, to help him against his enemies.

One of the few extant Roman inscriptions in Britain is found on the remnants of the forum ( see Verulamium Forum inscription ).

One of the major topics with reference to Vanuatu and the Pacific region was the question of the suitability of underwater heritage for inscription on the World Heritage List.

One bulla dating from his reign is still preserved, the obverse of which represents the Good Shepherd in the midst of His sheep, with the letters Alpha and Omega underneath, while the reverse bears the inscription: Deusdedit Papæ.

The inscription on the One Ring

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

One of the stones, the 9th century Drosten Stone, has the distinction of being one of the few Pictish artefacts to have an inscription in Latin text: ' DROSTEN: IREUORET TTFOR CUS ', which has been interpreted in various ways, but it is thought that the second line refers to the Pictish King Uurad, who reigned between 839 and 842 AD.

One inscription states that ships of Dilmun ( Bahrain ) brought him wood as tribute from foreign lands.

One of the verses of the inscription on the gate to the Abbey says:

One of the few representations of Tethys that is identified securely by an accompanying inscription is the Late Antique ( fourth century CE ) mosaic from the flooring of a thermae at Antioch, now at the Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts after being moved from Dumbarton Oaks.

One inscription from the Sinai states that Wepwawet " opens the way " to king Sekhemkhet's victory.

One single inscription is known to definitely indicate the deceased's profession ( a shipowner ) correctly. The mummy of a woman named Hermione also included the term grammatike ( γραμματική ).

Unlike Elvish, Tolkien did not write songs or poems in the Black Speech, apart from the One Ring inscription.

The only example of " pure " Black Speech is the inscription upon the One Ring:

One is the so-called Missal of Robert of Jumièges, actually a sacramentary with thirteen surviving full-page miniatures, which bears an inscription apparently in Robert's own hand recording its donation to Jumièges when he was Bishop of London, and the other the so-called Benedictional of Archbishop Robert, actually a pontifical with three remaining full-page miniatures and other decoration ( respectively Rouen, Bibliothèque Municipale, Manuscripts Y. 6 and Y. 7 ).

One is noted by an inscription in the library at Noto to have belonged to the gymnasium, while the other two were heroa ( shrines of heroes ).

One more modest and romantic theory is that the inscription is a secret message between two lovers.

From a fan, Tolkien received a goblet with the Ring inscription on it in Black Speech.

Because the Black Speech in general is an accursed language, and the Ring inscription in particular is a vile spell, Tolkien never drank out of it, and used it only as an ashtray.

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 game's publisher offered a prize — models of the major characters in an Icemark setting — to the first player who revealed the " Watchwords of Midnight ", an inscription on Luxor's Moon Ring that would be shown upon ultimate victory.

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 ).

The inscription includes three versions of the same text, written in three different cuneiform script languages: Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian ( a later form of Akkadian ).

The name has been compared to a divine epithet Carnonos in a Celtic inscription written in Greek characters at Montagnac, Hérault ( as καρνονου, karnonou, in the dative case ).

The sword pierces a piece of paper on which is written ‘ I vote the death of the tyrant ’, and as a tribute at the bottom right of the picture David placed the inscription ‘ David to Le Peletier.

Heimdallr is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional material ; in the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, both written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson ; in the poetry of skalds ; and on an Old Norse runic inscription found in England.

Regarding the inscription reading, John Hines of Cardiff University comments that there is " quite an essay to be written over the uncertainties of translation and identification here ; what are clear, and very important, are the names of two of the Norse gods on the side, Odin and Heimdallr, while Þjalfi ( masculine, not the feminine in-a ) is the recorded name of a servant of the god Thor.

Beit Lehi also contains the oldest known Hebrew writing of the word “ Jerusalem ” It's written as the inscription “ I am YHWH thy Lord.

He includes a detailed description of the apse mosaic over the main altar and gives the text for a long inscription he has written to be put on the wall under the image.

Each revolution is as meritorious as reading the inscription aloud as many times as it is written on the scroll, and this means that the more Om Mani Padme Hum mantras that are inside a prayer wheel, the more powerful it is.

The inscription on the base, written by Viollet-le-Duc, reads ( in French ):

The inscription in his marble sarcophagus, an elegiac distich written by Pietro Bembo, reads: " Ille hic est Raffael, timuit quo sospite vinci, rerum magna parens et moriente mori ," meaning: " Here lies that famous Raphael by whom Nature feared to be conquered while he lived, and when he was dying, feared herself to die.

On 11 November 1985, Blunden was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey The inscription on the stone was written by fellow Great War poet, Wilfred Owen.

An inscription written in Greek was found in a late Achaemenid temple at Persepolis which invoked Ahura Mazda and two other divinities, most likely Mithra and Anahita.

The inscription on the stone was written by a fellow Great War poet, Wilfred Owen.

In 1967, at Deir Alla, Jordan, archaeologists found an inscription apparently containing a previously unknown prophecy by Balaam written in a previously unattested dialect with Aramaic and South Canaanite characteristics and employing an idiosyncratic script.

The inscription on the stone was written by a fellow war poet, Wilfred Owen.

The key to reading logosyllabic cuneiform came from the Behistun inscription, a trilingual cuneiform inscription written in Old Persian, Elamite and Akkadian.

The judge said this acquittal " does not mean that the inscription on the ossuary is authentic or that it was written 2, 000 years ago.

Eir is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources ; the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson ; and in skaldic poetry, including a runic inscription from Bergen, Norway from around 1300.

Vár is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources ; the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson ; and kennings found in skaldic poetry and a runic inscription.

According to one of the earliest written accounts, at, they recovered a large stone bearing an inscription of symbols.

The name is also found on the inscription from Chamalières, which is a relatively long magical text ( 12 lines ) written in Gaulish on a rolled lead sheet.

The Bronzeware script | written inscription cast in bronze on the vessel commemorates a gift of cowrie shells in Zhou Dynasty society.