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 ".

The plinth carries two brass drinking fountain heads on opposite sides, and the inscription ; IN REMEMBRANCE OF SAMUEL GURNEY / WHO DIED THE 5TH OF JUNE 1856 / ERECTED BY HIS FELLOW PARISHIONERS AND FRIENDS / 1861 / " When the ear heard him then it blessed him " ( a paraphrase from the Book of Job, Chapter 29 verse 11 ).

" The inscription on a round brass plate beneath the tablet records that the cost was defrayed by the delegates of the Oxford University Press.

The capital letters and periods following each word were probably intended to resemble an ancient Roman lapidary inscription or monumental brass, thereby accentuating Shakespeare's declaration in Sonnet 55 that the work will confer immortality to the subjects of the work:

In 1887 Lick's body was buried under the future site of the telescope, with a brass tablet bearing the inscription, " Here lies the body of James Lick ".

A black iron knocker in the shape of a lion's head is between the two middle panels ; below the knocker is a brass letter box with the inscription " First Lord of the Treasury ".

The Chicago mansion boasted a brass plate on the door with the Latin inscription, Si Non Oscillas, Noli Tintinnare (" If you don't swing, don't ring ").

* In 1887 Lick's body was buried under the future site of the telescope, with a brass tablet bearing the inscription “ Here lies the body of James Lick .”

A brass inscription bearing his name remains in the parish church, dated 1581.

There is also an unusual brass plaque to local landowner William Button, with a complex inscription.

A brass Square of Freemasonry symbolism was found in the foundations with an inscription dating from 1507.

Sir John, an alabaster knight with an inscription in Norman French, is here from the beginning of the 14th century, and from the end of it, in brass, are Robert and Claricia, with a greyhound and two dogs at their feet as they clasp hands, their son Thomas holding his wife's hand near them in a brass of 1405.

In addition, a " brass plate placed on the ground at the north base " shown below, contains the following inscription.

In the church window Windham's widow installed a memorial brass with the inscription:

A black marble slab was laid over his grave ( no longer present ), and an inscription in brass recording his death and that of his first wife, Elizabeth Harris.

In north chapel there is on the north wall the inscription of a brass to Thomas Cowche, d. 20 Feb. 1641 – 2, and a tablet to Charles Trimnell, rector of the parish, d. 1702, and Mary his wife, d. 1684.

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.

On the exterior wall of the " Hôpital Necker – Enfants Malades ", where Laennec wrote Mediate auscultation, near the entrance of the hospital in 149, Rue de Sèvres, there is a marble memorial tablet with an engraved portrait of Laennec and this inscription: " Dans cet hôpital Laennec découvrit l ' auscultation.

Information regarding Nabonidus is chiefly derived from a chronological tablet containing the annals of Nabonidus, supplemented by another inscription of Nabonidus where he recounts his restoration of the temple of the Moon-god at Harran ; as well as by a proclamation of Cyrus issued shortly after his formal recognition as king of Babylonia.

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.

The inscription on the accompanying marble tablet reads:

A marble tablet from the 3rd c. BC found in Ialyssus contains an inscription about the regulations for visitors to the temple of Alectrona.

The mandala in Nichiren Buddhism is called a moji-mandala ( 文字曼陀羅 ) and is a paper hanging scroll or wooden tablet whose inscription consists of Chinese characters and medieval-Sanskrit script representing elements of the Buddha's enlightenment, protective Buddhist deities, and certain Buddhist concepts.

In this rendering, Cross has restored the missing top of the tablet ( estimated at two lines ) based on the content of the rest of the inscription, as referring to a battle that has been fought and won by general Milkaton, son of Shubna, against the Sardinians at the site of, surely Tarshish ; Cross conjectures that Tarshish here " is most easily understood as the name of a refinery town in Sardinia, presumably Nora or an ancient site nearby.

By the spring of 1926, the school had been renamed Ward P. Davenport High School, and the stone tablet over the front door with the inscription " Plymouth High School " was replaced with one inscribed with Davenport's name.

King Barattarna is known from a cuneiform tablet in Nuzi and an inscription by Idrimi of Alalakh.

Most of the inscriptions are very short, but there is one longer inscription, a bronze tablet inscribed with a text of 35 words.

The Heemstede replenished their supplies with fresh water, fish, seals and penguins and left a wooden tablet with the inscription “ Today, 17 February 1643, from the Dutch fluyt Heemstede, Claes Gerritsz Bierenbroodspot from Hoorn and Jan Coertsen van den Broec landed here .”.

After Barbauld's death, a marble tablet was erected in the Newington Green Chapel with the following inscription:

* There is a memorial tablet, with an inscription by Archbishop Benson in Truro Cathedral ;

He is buried in Poets ' Corner at Westminster Abbey where the inscription on his tablet reads " O rare Sir William Davenant.

" It has been noted that the original inscription on Ben Jonson's tablet, which was already removed by the time Davenant died, was " Rare Ben ," which was the name Shakespeare supposedly had for Jonson.

Above the main cornice rises a high, weighty 4. 40m high attic on which is a central tablet bearing the dedicatory inscription.

A tablet to his memory is in Chowbent Chapel ; another in the Octagon Chapel, Norwich, bearing a Latin inscription by Samuel Parr.

Although little more than a stream in the south, until 1935 the encased watercourse flooded during heavy rains every decade or so ; an inscription on a white stone tablet high up the side of a building in Elder Road, West Norwood reads: " FLOOD LEVEL 17th July 1890 ".

Clay tablet, copy of a monumental inscription, ca.

Pieces of the purported True Cross, including the half of the INRI inscription tablet, are preserved at the ancient basilica Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome.

Important among them ; at Virupaksha Temple, there is 8th ( 733 – 745 CE ) century Old Kannada inscription on victory pillar, in the Sangameshvara temple, there exists a large inscription tablet ( 696-733 CE ) describing grants made by King Vijayaditya for the construction of the temple.