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 ".

William Clark ’ s inscription on Pompey's Pillar National Monument | Pompey's Pillar

The City of Books location grew to its current size after an expansion that opened in 1999 ; it included a new entrance facing the Pearl District which featured the " Pillar of Books ", a Tenino sandstone carving depicting a stack of eight of the world's great books, on a base with the inscription " Buy the book, read the book, enjoy the book, sell the book " in Latin.

The Iron Pillar in the courtyard bears an inscription in Sanskrit in Brahmi script of the 4th century AD.

Image: IzumoTaisha-doutorii-meibun. JPG | Pillar inscription

The script was very similar to the one used in Samudragupta's Allahabad Pillar inscription.

Brahmi inscription on a fragment of the 6th Pillar of Ashoka

When exactly the Saharanpur region slipped out of the hands of the Gahadvala Dynasty into those of the Chauhan Dynasty, is not known for certain ; this region must, however, have been under the rule of the Chauhans, for it is written in the inscription of the Virghraj IV, Bisaldev, ( 1150 – 1192 ) on the Delhi Shivalik Pillar inscription ( dated 1164 ): " Defeated Tambar, the Tomer Raj, he was a regent ( Samant ) of Govindachandra Gahadvala.

The Allahabad Pillar inscription of Samudragupta also mentions the Yaudheyas.

An inscription on a stone built into the wall of a summer house in Lancarffe furnishes proof of a settlement in Bodmin in the early Middle Ages.

There, in October or November, 1485, near the falls of Ielala, he left an inscription engraved on the stone which testifies of its passage and that of his men: " Aqui chegaram os navios do esclarecido rei D. João II de Portugal-Diogo Cão, Pero Anes, Pero da Costa.

The best-preserved Latin inscription surviving from the Greek East, the edict survives in many versions, on materials as varied as wood, papyrus, and stone.

The Younger Futhark inscription on the stone bears a commonly seen memorial dedication, but is followed by an encoded runic sequence that has been described as " mysterious ," and " an interesting magic formula which is known from all over the ancient Norse world.

Its king Chandrabhanu used it as a base to attack Sri Lanka in the 11th century, an event noted in a stone inscription in Nagapattinum in Tamil Nadu and in the Sri Lankan chronicles, Mahavamsa.

His grave was unmarked until 1966 when a stone was erected with the inscription Kurt Schwitters – Creator of Merz.

The stone inscription tells us that, the kirants probably ruled Nepal about 1000 years ago.

Egyptologists use the word for texts and representations inscribed in stone that have been scraped away, either completely or partially, often with a plaster filling being applied, and then a new inscription carved on top.

In Phrygia a number of funerary stone inscriptions use the term Chrestians, with one stone inscription using both terms together, reading: " Chrestians for Christians ".

In 1789 the stone was visited by King George III along with his queen and an inscription was added to the stone commemorate the visit.

The terms of this treaty, including the fixed borders between the two countries, are recorded in a bilingual inscription on a stone pillar outside the Jokhang temple in Lhasa.

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.

The inscription on the stone is a quotation from the work of a fellow Great War poet, Wilfred Owen.

An engraving on an eye stone of onyx with an inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II

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.

The inscription on the memorial stone reads:

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

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

Soon after, they would find themselves before a stone portal, the ossuary entry, with the inscription Arrête!

In 1998, excavations discovered the " Arthur stone " which has added to Tintagel's Arthurian lore though historians do not believe the inscription refers to King Arthur himself.

The inscription can be read as ' Aelnat fecit hanc crucem pro anima sua ' ( Ælnat made this cross for good of his soul ) ( the back of the stone has the names of the four evangelists ): the name of this man is Saxon ( together with Alfwy mentioned in 1086 he is the only Anglo-Saxon recorded in connection with the area ).

Transcription, in the context of cuneiform, is the process in which an epigraphist makes a line art drawing to show the signs on a clay tablet or stone inscription in a graphic form suitable for modern publication.

He performed such miracles by magic acts during the reign of Claudius that he was regarded as a god and honored with a statue on the island in the Tiber which the two bridges cross, with the inscription Simoni Deo Sancto, " To Simon the Holy God ".

This tradition persisted in modern Greek folklore about the vrykolakas, in which a wax cross and piece of pottery with the inscription " Jesus Christ conquers " were placed on the corpse to prevent the body from becoming a vampire.

The plinth of the cross has the inscription: ' In Memory of William Barnes, Died Oct 7th 1886.

In 1938, after recovering the cross and donating it to Marcus Brody's museum, Indiana is introduced to Walter Donovan, who informs him that Indiana's estranged father has vanished while searching for the Holy Grail, using an incomplete inscription as his guide.

Justin Martyr records that Simon Magus, a gnostic mentioned in the Christian Bible, performed such miracles by magic acts during the reign of Claudius that he was regarded as a god and honored with a statue on the island in the Tiber which the two bridges cross, with the inscription Simoni Deo Sancto, " To Simon the Holy God ".

At a depth of 5 m ( 16 feet ) the monks discovered a massive treetrunk coffin and a leaden cross bearing the inscription: Hic jacet sepultus inclitus rex Arthurus in insula Avalonia.

AD 1000 bears an unical inscription preceded and followed by a cross, interpreted as indicating a Christian owner syncretizing pagan and Christian symbolism.

" In the small part is power of the whole cross ", so an inscription in the Felix Basilica of Nola, built by bishop Paulinus at the beginning of 5th century.

There is a Tau cross on one side and a Latin inscription on the other side, now much worn, reading:

A cross was placed there in 1816 bearing the inscription Deo optimo maximo, " to the best and greatest god.

Lord Upper Ossory was also responsible for a cross commemorating Katherine of Aragon, with an inscription by Horace Walpole, and a row of thatched cottages built between 1812 and 1816 to house his estate workers.

The inscription on the cross reads:

There used to be a crucifix visible on the exterior — however, during external refurbishment ( including replacing the ' Prince of Wales Building ' inscription in English with its current name in Chinese ), the cross was removed.

A Celtic cross was raised over his grave with a simple inscription

Two inscription stones mark the castle's history and its re-edification by Gualdim Pais ( over the main gate ), as well as its Christian history ( from the cross carved into the space above an open window in the keep ).

If no relics are inserted in the stone, the inscription may be omitted, but not the cross.

Above it, under the covering stone, according to Giraldus, was a leaden cross with the unmistakably specific inscription (" Here lies interred the famous King Arthur on the Isle of Avalon ").

A cross of bronze, 2 inches in height and 1 13 / 16 inches in width with an eagle on the center and a scroll below the eagle bearing the inscription "".

* Celtic Art Stone with later cross inscription Celtic Iron Age 600 B. C .– 400 A. D., Crathach Thiar ( Croha West )

Old Avarian cross with Avarian inscription in the old Georgian alphabet.

The stone or cross of Einon in Margam Stone Museum has the inscription “ This cross of Christ, Enniaun made for the soul of Guorgoret .” J K Allen60 and others interpret Enniaun as Einon and the stone was erected between 850 and 933, which would coincide with the life of Einon ap Owain ap Hywel Dda.