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 ".

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:

The constructed name Dvaravati was confirmed by a Sanskrit plate inscription containing the name “ Dvaravati ”.

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.

A plate with an inscription found at the site claims that this building was the 4th largest amphitheatre in the whole Roman Empire.

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 ).

The first known use of alphabetic sampi in writing native Greek words is an inscription found on a silver plate in Ephesus, which has the words "" (" four ") and "" (" forty ") spelled with sampi ( cf.

In the middle of the room stands a metal case, with the emblem of the Guardians of the Lost Library our heroes first saw in Egypt, an Ibis symbolizing Thoth, the Egyptian deity of wisdom and writing, and an inscription on a metal plate by the last survivor of Drakeborough, saying that he had the library condensed into one single volume with every information no other surviving book in the world included.

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

( 9 ) Umbrian ( inscription on a bronze plate from Plestia, 4th century BC )

According to the Miholjanec legend, Stephen V of Hungary had in front of his tent a golden plate with the inscription: " Attila, the son of Bendeuci, grandson of the great Nimrod, born at Engedi: By the Grace of God King of the Huns, Medes, Goths, Dacians, the horrors of the world and the scourge of God.

The inscription plate above the entrance to the interior ( upper image )

His coffin had attached to it a plate of pure silver which bore the simple inscription, William Charles Wentworth, born Oct. 26th, 1793 died March, 20th, 1872.

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 ").

He replaced it with a new plate which reproduced Hartog's original inscription and added notes of his own, and took Hartog's original back to Amsterdam, where it may now be seen in the Rijksmuseum.

He replaced it with one of his own, which included a copy of Hartog's inscription, and took the original plate home to Amsterdam, where it is still kept in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

The Inscription of Alba Fucus is a bronze plate inscribed with ALBSI PATRE .< ref > gives the CIL number, as the inscription was originally taken to be early Latin: CIL I < sup > 2 </ sup > 385, VI 3672, IX 4177 .</ ref > Conway reconstructs the first word as * albe ( n ) si, a dative case.

The only difference in the marginal inscription was the plate identification which was shown as a letter, ( see picture ), rather than a number as used on the general issue of postage stamps.

Curran had her buried in the grounds of the Priory and over the grave he placed a recumbent slab, on which was fixed a metal plate bearing the inscription:

A reference to " Og " appears in a Phoenician inscription from Byblos ( Byblos 13 ) published in 1974 by Wolfgang Rölling in " Eine new phoenizische Inschrift aus Byblos ," ( Neue Ephemeris für Semitische Epigraphik, vol 2, 1-15 and plate 1 ).

Attached to it was the Tzitz ( Hebrew: ציץ ), a plate of solid gold bearing the inscription " Holiness to YHWH " (, ).

In 1963, Belle Vue manor was demolished, but today a memorial plate with just that inscription has been erected at the site by the Austrian Sigmund Freud Society.

Wooden plate with inscription in a Tocharian languages | Tocharian language.

Copper plate inscription at Swayambhu dated Nepal Sambat 1072 ( 1952 AD ).

Herm of Hermes, Roman copy of a late 5th century BC original, the forefront inscription states the herm was made by Alcamenes and placed infront of the gates of Pergamon, Istanbul Archaeology Museums | Istanbul Museums.

The Res Gestae Divi Augusti (" Acts of the divine Augustus "), a self-congratulatory inscription commissioned by Augustus to list his achievements, states that he received an embassy from the Bastarnae seeking a treaty of friendship.

The inscription states in detail that the rebellions, which had resulted from the deaths of Cyrus the Great and his son Cambyses II, were orchestrated by several impostors and their co-conspirators in various cities throughout the empire, each of whom falsely proclaimed kinghood during the upheaval following Cyrus's death.

This may well have been continued post-Brahminism in Tamilakam, as the famous Thiruvalangadu inscription states:

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.

An inscription identifies Callicrates as one of the architects of the Classical circuit wall of the Acropolis ( IG I < sup > 3 </ sup > 45 ), and Plutarch further states ( loc cit ) that he contracted to build the Middle of three amazing walls linking Athens and Piraeus.

In addition, the inscription on the gravestone of third son, the 8th headmaster of the Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage-ryū Kenjutsu, states that his exploits included improving the bokuto and shinai, and refining the armour by adding a metal grille to the men ( head piece ) and thick cotton protective coverings to the kote ( gauntlets ).

The fate of one of the columns is recorded by a Greek inscription on one of the surviving columns, which states that " on 27 April 1759 he pulled down the column ".

Darius's inscription states that his father was satrap of Bactria in 522 BCE.

An inscription states that the palace was destroyed during the reign of Artaxerxes I, but was rebuilt.

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

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

Its stone is set so low that a table can easily be placed over it ; the inscription states his followers ' belief that he will rise from the dead someday and take control of the colony once more.

He commemorated Blanche with an inscription in the Painted Hall at Chatsworth, which states that he completed his reconstruction of the house in the year of his bereavement, 1840, and by Blanche's Urn at the top of the Long Walk in the garden.

The pillar bears an inscription which states that it was erected as a flagstaff in honour of the Hindu god Vishnu, and in the memory of Chandragupta II ( A derivation of " Natya-darpana " by Vishakadata states that the pillar had been put up by Chandragupta II himself after defeating Vahilakas.

The inscription to Samudragupta's martial exploits states that its author is Harisena, who was an important poet of Samudragupta's court.

The inscription of Argistis near Lake Van states:

The inscription states: " Marcus Vinucius ..., Consul 19 BC ... official titles, governor of Illyricum, the first general to advance across the river Danube, defeated in battle and routed an army of Dacians and Basternae, and subjugated the Cotini, Osi ,... tribal name and Anartii to the power of the emperor Augustus and of the people of Rome.

An inscription of King Rajendra states that he captured Sangrama-vijayottungga-varman, the King of Kadaram, took a large heap of treasures including the Vidhyadara-torana, the jewelled ' war gate ' of Srivijaya adorned with great splendour.

An inscription in the Swedish Chapel dating to the Swedish War states " Bis hierher und nicht weiter kamen die schwedischen Reiter " (" The Swedish knights came as far as here but no further.

The inscription on his tomb states:

Beneath the mosque is an inscription that states the name of the nation.

An inscription referring to this temple states that Krishnadevaraya donated Nagalapura and other villages for worship and offerings to the Gods for the merit of his parents Narsa Nayaka and Nagaji Devi.