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 ".

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.

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

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.

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 ".

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.

* 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 .”

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.

This list, published in July 2010, includes sites that may be nominated for inscription over the next 5 – 10 years.

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 container includes the inscription: " Interred herein are remains of American Clyde W. Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto and the solar system's ' third zone '.

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.

Other evidence includes, for example, an 8th century combination of iconography and inscriptions discovered at Kuntillet Ajrud in the northern Sinai desert where a storage jar shows three anthropomorphic figures and an inscription that refers to " Yahweh … and his asherah ".

The most complete ancient Egyptian account of the myth is the Great Hymn to Osiris, an inscription from the Eighteenth Dynasty ( c. 1550 – 1292 BC ) that gives the general outline of the entire story but includes little detail.

On the walls of the Dome of the Rock is an inscription in a mosaic frieze that includes the following words from Quran ( 19: 33 – 35 ), which are considered blasphemy to Christianity:

The area includes several sites of archaeological interest, notably Hezekiah's tunnel ( a water supply system, where the Siloam inscription was found ), Warren's shaft ( an earlier structure, postulated by some to have been a water supply system ), and the Pool of Siloam ( the presently extant Byzantine-era pool, and the recently discovered Second Temple-period pool ).

An inscription includes Fons among a series of deities who received expiatory sacrifices by the Arval Brothers in 224 AD, when several trees in the sacred grove of Dea Dia, their chief deity, had been struck by lightning and burnt.

The contemporary coat of arms of the city of Nîmes includes a crocodile chained to a palm tree with the inscription, for Colonia Nemausus, meaning the " colony " or " settlement " of Nemausus, the local Celtic god of the Volcae Arecomici.

Zhou Zheng has pointed out that one TLV mirror dating to the reign of Wang Mang ( 9 – 23 ) has an inscription that includes the words " Carved with a Liubo board pattern to dispel misfortune " ( 刻具博局去不羊 ), which suggests that the main purpose of the Liubo pattern on mirrors was ritual, and that the pattern had a special significance beyond game-playing.

An inscription of ownership on an expensive Egyptian alabaster vase once owned by the son has survived to attest the latter's short official career, and includes an unusual triple filiation which confirms the literary evidence to the effect that Clodius ' own filiation was: Ap.

The inscription includes: In 1824, Lafayette re visited this grave, and turning away much affected, exclaimed, Ah, that was one of my Generals.

Her headstone includes the inscription: " To yesterday's companionship and tomorrow's reunion.

The inscription corpus includes:

Since the Mes inscription was composed during the reign of Ramesses II when the Amarna-era Pharaohs were struck from the official king-lists, the Year 59 Horemheb date certainly includes the nearly 17 year long reign of Akhenaten, the 2 year independent reign of Neferneferuaten, the 9 year reign of Tutankhamun and the 4 year reign of Ay.

A partial inscription on the base of the statue includes the word " Rhodios " ( Rhodian ), indicating that the statue was commissioned to celebrate a naval victory by Rhodes, at that time the most powerful maritime state in the Aegean.

The official guidebook includes an image of the sculpture ( but not of the pedestal ), and mentions that the Queen recorded in her diary that the idea for it came from Victoria, Princess Royal ( her eldest child ) and that the inscription on the plinth is a quotation from The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith.

The memorial includes a fountain and a field-stone monument with the presidential seal and JFK inscription: " I believe it is important that this country sail and not sit still in the harbor ".

Almost every oracle bone inscription includes a date in this format.

The Behistun inscription listing the 23 territories of King Darius I ( 519 BC ) includes Gandāra along with Bactria and Thatagush ( ϑataguš, Satagydia ).