Each adult is held personally responsible for assuring his inscription and obtaining an identification card which must be shown on demand.

We went into Mrs. Monmouth's library, which had low bookshelves all along the walls, and above them a Modigliani portrait, a Jackson Pollock twelve feet long, and a gorgeous Miro with a yellow background, that looked like an inscription from a Martian tomb.

Instead, the Hebrew name Ahasuerus accords with an inscription of the time that notes that Artaxerxes II was named also Arshu, understood as a shortening of Achshiyarshu the Babylonian rendering of the Persian Khshayarsha ( Xerxes ), through which the Hebrew Achashverosh ( Ahasuerus ) is derived.

Later in the inscription, Darius provides a lengthy sequence of events following the deaths of Cyrus the Great and Cambyses II in which he fought nineteen battles in a period of one year ( ending in December of 521 BC ) to put down multiple rebellions throughout the Persian Empire.

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.

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 presence of a Hellenised Diana at Nemi should be related to the presence of the cult in Campania, as Diana Tifatina was appelled Trivia in an imperial age inscription which mentions a flamen Virbialis dedicated by eques C. Octavius Verus.

An early version of Devanagari is visible in the Kutila inscription of Bareilly dated to Vikram Samvat 1049 ( i. e. 992 CE ), which demonstrates the emergence of the horizontal bar to group letters belonging to a word.

The sword pierces a piece of paper on which is written ‘ I vote the death of the tyrant ’, and as a tribute at the bottom right of the picture David placed the inscription ‘ David to Le Peletier.

Excavations at Praeneste, an Etruscan city which became Roman, turned up about 118 cistae, one of which has been termed " the Praeneste cista " or " the Ficoroni cista " by art analysts, with special reference to the one manufactured by Novios Plutius and given by Dindia Macolnia to her daughter, as the archaic Latin inscription says.

Yale president Arthur Twining Hadley penned the inscription, which reads: " On Pemberton Hill, 255 Feet North of This Spot, Was Born on April Fifth 1649 Elihu Yale, Governor of Madras, Whose Permanent Memorial in His Native Land is the College That Bears His Name.

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.

The inscription beneath this impressive mural expresses the desire of local people for the original canvas to be put on display in the town which inspired its creation: Guernica.

The inscription in Etruscan letters reads eluveitie, which has been interpreted as the Etruscan form of the Celtic ( h ) elu ̯ eti ̯ os (“ the Helvetian ”), presumably referring to a man of Helvetian descent living in Mantua.

" 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.

The latter inscription suggests that Imhotep outlived Djoser by a few years and went on to serve in the construction of king Sekhemkhet's pyramid which was abandoned due to this ruler's brief reign.

Angered by this snub, Eris arrived at the celebration with a golden apple from the Garden of the Hesperides, which she threw into the proceedings, upon which was the inscription καλλίστῃ ( kallistēi, " for the fairest one ").

The inscription on his tomb contains Persian words penned which state: اگرفردوس روی زمین است همین است و همین است و همین است ( If there is a paradise on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this!

In his early life, he taught rhetoric in his native place, which may have been Cirta in Numidia, where an inscription mentions a certain ' L.

* The Minerva Roundabout in Guadalajara, Mexico, located at the crossing of the López Mateos, Vallarta, López Cotilla, Agustín Yáñez and Golfo de Cortez avenues, features the goddess standing on a pedestal, surrounded by a large fountain, with an inscription which says " Justice, wisdom and strength guard this loyal city ".

Many of the stones bear inscription and figures, several of which have been interpreted as dancers in a ring or line dance.

on an antique board which bears a Latin inscription Ita in vita ut in lusu alae pessima jactura arte corrigenda est ( translated in the book as As in life, so in a game of hazard, skill will make something of the worst of throws ).

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 oldest text in Phoenician script is an inscription on the sarcophagus of King Ahiram.

A writing system for it was devised in 1119 AD and an inscription using this system is known from 1185 ( see List of Jurchen inscriptions ).

It is first attested by an inscription dated to 1224 or 1225 AD and by the Secret History of the Mongols, written in 1228 ( see Mongolic languages ).

Sometimes the whole space is taken up with the inscription.

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:

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!

The first known mention of the city of Akkad is in an inscription of Enshakushanna of Uruk, where he claims to have defeated Agade — indicating that it was in existence well before the days of Sargon of Akkad, whom the Sumerian King List claims to have built it.

The first universally accepted inscription containing the use of the 0 glyph is first recorded in the 9th century, in an inscription at Gwalior in Central India dated to 870.

A self-portrait, a drawing in silverpoint, is dated 1484 ( Albertina, Vienna ) “ when I was a child ," as his later inscription says.

The Behistun Inscription ( also Bistun or Bisutun, Modern Persian: بیستون < Old Persian: Bagastana, meaning " the place of god ") is a multi-lingual inscription located on Mount Behistun in the Kermanshah Province of Iran, near the city of Kermanshah in western Iran.

In effect, then, the inscription is to cuneiform what the Rosetta Stone is to Egyptian hieroglyphs: the document most crucial in the decipherment of a previously lost script.

There is some speculation that the inscription was added by Claudius himself decades later, and that he originally did not appear at all.

An inscription dating to 330 records the title of Alamannicus, so it is probable that his generals won a victory over the Alamanni.

The accompanying inscription is in Greek.

Additional evidence is given by one inscription on a metal plaque from Steinsel-Rëlent in Luxembourg, in the territory of the Celtic Treveri.

It is dated to the 5th century BC by the inscription on its cornice.

Immediately adjacent to the exit ( and overlooked by most tour guides ) is the inscription that mentions the Roman proconsul Gallio.

The Nørre Nærå Runestone is interpretted as having a " grave binding inscription " used to keep the deceased in its grave.

The homicide law is a highly fragmented inscription, but it does state that it is up to the victim ’ s relatives to prosecute a killer.