A group of MIT hackers responded by altering the banner so that the inscription read " The Only Institute of Technology.

This inscription read Deo Ceruninco, " to the God Cerunincos ", assumed to be the same deity.

" In Bronze Age Crete, an inscription da-da-re-jo-de has been read as referring to a place at Knossos, and a place of worship.

A wry trick of others is to request the reader to get off their resting place, inasmuch as the reader would have to be standing on the ground above the coffin to read the inscription.

Legend has it that carved into the wall above the shelves was an inscription that read: The place of the cure of the soul.

The Greek phrase to describe the phenomenon is (; " crab inscription "), or simply karkinoi (; " crabs "), alluding to the movement of crabs, such as an inscription that may be read backwards.

Seven years later, on the anniversary of what would have been her 100th birthday, her husband placed an inscription on her tomb that read in part:

The full inscription read: Iste est gladius Principis et haeredis Boleslai Ducis Poloniae et Masoviae, Lanciciae (" This is a sword of Hereditary Prince Boleslaus, Duke of Poland, Masovia, and Łęczyca ").

The last straw was when Don Salvador read in a Barcelona newspaper that his son had recently exhibited in Paris a drawing of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ, with a provocative inscription: " Sometimes, I spit for fun on my mother's portrait ".

The Latin inscription on the coins read, " ZVEN REX DÆNOR ", which translates as " Sven, king of Danes ".

In the Vologeses inscription one can read that Vologeses I, the Parthian king, in the 11th year of his reign, battled Kuluk, king of the Alani.

Fellows could not read the Lycian inscription, except for one line identifying a person of illegible name, to whom the monument was erected, termed the son of Arppakhu in Lycian, equivalent to Greek Harpagos.

The inscription can be read as ' mp C G Val Lic Licin ' which would refer to the Emperor Licinius ( d. 324 ).

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 ).

Duchamp added an inscription, which when read out loud in French sounds like " Elle a chaud au cul " literally translated: " she has a hot ass ", implying the woman in the painting is in a state of sexual excitement and intended as a Freudian joke ..

The inscription matar kubileya at a Phrygian rock-cut shrine, dated to the first half of the 6th century BCE, is usually read as " Mother of the mountain ", a reading supported by ancient Classical sources, and consistent with Cybele as any of several similar tutelary goddesses, each known as " mother " and associated with specific Anatolian mountains or other localities ; a goddess " born from stone ".

According to Cornelius Nepos, in his defense Epaminondas merely requested that, if he be executed, the inscription regarding the verdict read: Epaminondas was punished by the Thebans with death, because he obliged them to overthrow the Lacedaemonians at Leuctra, whom, before he was general, none of the Boeotians durst look upon in the field, and because he not only, by one battle, rescued Thebes from destruction, but also secured liberty for all Greece, and brought the power of both people to such a condition, that the Thebans attacked Sparta, and the Lacedaemonians were content if they could save their lives ; nor did he cease to prosecute the war, till, after settling Messene, he shut up Sparta with a close siege.

This altar bears the inscription seen and misread by S. Justin ( Semoni Sanco Deo read as Simoni Deo Sancto ) and was discovered on the island in July, 1574.

Paul Hentzner, a German traveler who visited England c. 1599 records that her faded tombstone inscription read in part:

A silver statuette found at Cockersand Moss, Lancashire, in 1718 but now lost, had an inscription on the base which read:

The inscription sit intra te concordia et publica felicitas, which can still be read on the gate, refers directly to the conflict with the Duke.

" The inscription read: " To Steve -- who has been a son to me.

Nevertheless, between 120, 000 and 140, 000 people were able to pass by the open casket and then the bell, carefully placed at Lincoln's head so mourners could read the inscription, " Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.

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.

" The Hebrew inscription, which is set on three lines, reads as follows: " l ' hz * y / hwtm * mlk */ yhdh ", which translates as " belonging to Ahaz ( son of ) Yehotam, King of Judah.

: Hermes bringing to Paris the son of Priam the goddesses of whose beauty he is to judge, the inscription on them being: ' Here is Hermes, who is showing to Paris, that he may arbitrate concerning their beauty, Hera, Athena and Aphrodite.

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 year is stated as the ninth year of Ptolemy V's reign ( equated with 197 / 196 BC ), and it is confirmed by naming four priests who officiated in that same year: Aëtus son of Aëtus was priest of the divine cults of Alexander the Great and the five Ptolemies down to Ptolemy V himself ; his three colleagues, named in turn in the inscription, led the worship of Berenice Euergetis ( wife of Ptolemy III ), Arsinoe Philadelpha ( wife and sister of Ptolemy II ) and Arsinoe Philopator, mother of Ptolemy V. However, a second date is also given in the Greek and hieroglyphic texts, corresponding to, the official anniversary of Ptolemy's coronation.

Ostracon with inscription: " Themistocles, son of Neocles "

Taylor found clay cylinders in the four corners of the top stage of the ziggurat which bore an inscription of Nabonidus ( Nabuna ` id ), the last king of Babylon ( 539 BC ), closing with a prayer for his son Belshar-uzur ( Bel-ŝarra-Uzur ), the Belshazzar of the Book of Daniel.

Thus, upon the conquest of Persia, Alexander the Great sent to Athens 300 suits of Persian armour with the following inscription Alexander, son of Philip, and all the Greeks except the Spartans, give these offerings taken from the foreigners who live in Asia added.

In an inscription from Turnovo in 1230 he entitled himself " In Christ the Lord faithful Tsar and autocrat of the Bulgarians, son of the old Asen ".

Evidence in support of there being descendants of Zenobia is offered by a name in an inscription found in Rome: the name of L. Septimia Patavinia Balbilla Tyria Nepotilla Odaenathiania incorporates the names of Zenobia's first husband and son and may be suggestive of a possible family relationship ( after the deaths of Odaenathus and his sons, Odaenathus had no descendants ).

The earliest reference to a Greek Jew is an inscription dated c. 300-250 BCE, found in Oropos, a small coastal town between Athens and Boeotia, which refers to " Moschos, son of Moschion the Jew ", who may have been a slave.

") and the inscription on Balin's tombstone, reading: BALIN FUNDINUL UZBAD KHAZAD-DÛMU, or Balin son of Fundin Lord of Moria.

The inscription reads: “ Belonging to Ahaz ( son of ) Yehotam, King of Judah .” Given the process that created and preserved bullae, they are virtually impossible to forge.

In 1967 a stone was found at Wroxeter in a Sub-Roman context ( dating to c. 460-475 AD ) with the inscription CUNORIX MACUS MAQVI COLINE, which translates as " Cunorix (' Hound-king ') son of Maqui-Coline (' Son-of-Holly '), both of which are regarded as Irish personal names.

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.

According to a Pahlavi inscription, Bahram I was the son ( not, as the Greek historiographers and Tabari note, the grandson ) of Shapur I ( r. 241 – 272 ).

; 840 BC: Mesha inscription describes Moabite victory over a son of King Omri of Israel.

In the royal cemetery, while other monarchs simply have the inscription " King of the Hellenes, Prince of Denmark ", Alexander's reads " Alexander, son of the King of the Hellenes, Prince of Denmark.

The Sanskrit inscription ( K. 5 ) of Tháp Mười ( known as " Pràsàt Prằṃ Lovêṅ " in Khmer ), which is now on display in the Museum of Vietnamese History in Ho Chi Minh City, refers to a Prince Guṇavarman, younger son ( nṛpasunu — bālo pi ) of a king Ja who was “ the moon of the Kauṇḍinya line (... kauṇḍiyaśaśaśinā ...) and chief “ of a realm wrested from the mud ”.

The text is said to mean " Balin son of Fundin, Lord of Moria " in both Khuzdul and Westron, but while the first part of the inscription is in Khuzdul, the second part is actually plain English, just written in certar.

A Judeo-Aramaic inscription of Abraham, son of Sarah, from Mtskheta from the 4th-6th century