After this time, inscriptions on the Han bronze mirrors, as well as other writings, emphasized the desirability of keeping one's self at the center of the universe, where cosmic forces were strongest.

The earliest attested name is the Hittite Assuwa a region in central-western Anatolia which seems to be connected with the Mycenean Greek epithet a-si-wi-ja in Linear B inscriptions found at Pylos.

The findings at Anyang include the earliest written record of Chinese past so far discovered: inscriptions of divination records in ancient Chinese writing on the bones or shells of animals – the so-called " oracle bones ", dating from around 1200 BC.

The name Kalliste ( Καλλίστη ), " most beautiful ", may be recognized as an epithet of the goddess herself, though none of the inscriptions at Athens that record priests of Artemis Kalliste ( Άρτεμις Καλλίστη ), date before the third century BCE.

The four pillars set up by Cão on his two voyages have all been discovered in situ, and the inscriptions on two of them from Cape Santa Maria and Cape Cross, dated 1482 and 1485 respectively, are still to be read and have been printed ; the Cape Cross padrão is now at Kiel ( replaced on the spot by a granite facsimile ); those from the Congo estuary and the more southerly Monte Negro are in the Museum of the Lisbon Geographical Society.

Though there is little evidence supporting Aksumite control of the region at that time, his title, which includes king of Saba and Salhen, Himyar and Dhu-Raydan ( all in modern-day Yemen ), along with gold Aksumite coins with the inscriptions, " king of the Habshat " or " Habashite ," indicate that Aksum might have retained some legal or actual footing in the area.

Annio also started to excavate Etruscan tombs, unearthing sarcophagi and inscriptions, and made a bold attempt at deciphering the Etruscan language.

The term graffiti referred to the inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs of Rome or at Pompeii.

This theory is confusing as Gurmukhi characters have a very close resemblance with " Siddh Matrika " inscriptions found at some sacred wells in Punjab as G. B Singh notes, one being the hathur inscription dating to just before the brith of Guru Nanak.

He came from a prominent family ( his father was master of ceremonies at the court of the Duke ), and he often describes himself as having noble status in the inscriptions to his prints.

These two rivers are attested in several verse inscriptions on gold plates dating to the 4th century BC and onward, found at Thurii in Southern Italy and elsewhere throughout the Greek world.

The earth-altar may correspond to a Linear B mention of an " open-fire altar "; Linear B ( 14th-13th centuries BCE ) inscriptions also give the first mentions of offerings to Zeus and of the sacred precinct ( temenos ) near the altar, such as has been excavated at Lykaion

The monument is decorated with Latin inscriptions and a memorial text in Dutch, with symbolic " A " decorations at the top.

The appellation also survives on inscriptions: Birley cites ( at Marcus Aurelius, p. 270 n. 24 ) Prosopographia Imperii Romani < sup > 2 </ sup > A 697, and L ' Année épigraphique 1940. 62.

He and his workmen discovered the famous runic inscriptions carved on the walls, proof that Norsemen had broken into the tomb at least six centuries earlier.

Turkish inscriptions dated earlier than the Orkhon inscriptions used about 150 symbols, which may suggest tamgas at first imitating the Chinese script and then gradually refined into an alphabet.

Greek inscriptions discovered at Pergamon include the rules of the town clerks, Lex de astynomis Pergamenorum, which has added to understanding of Greek municipal texts, including such mundane examples as providing an early set of rules for maintaining public lavatories, aphedron.

During the imperium of his Ptolemaic heirs, the shrine of Isis at Philae received many votive inscriptions from Greeks on behalf of their kindred far away at home.

They were comprehensively defeated by Ramses III, who fought them in " Djahi " ( the eastern Mediterranean coast ) and at " the mouths of the rivers " ( the Nile delta ), recording his victories in a series of inscriptions in his mortuary temple at Medinet Habu.

Two of these, the inscriptions at Medinet Habu and the Rhetorical Stela at Deir al-Medinah, are dated to the time of the reign of Ramses III ( 1186 – 1155 BC ).

Extant Lydian texts now number slightly over one hundred, all but a few having been found in or near the Lydian capital but fewer than thirty of the inscriptions consist of more than a few words and are reasonably complete.

These runic writings however usually consist of no more than inscriptions of a single or few words.

Over 85 % of the inscriptions consist of a single symbol.

The vast majority of the inscriptions consist of personal names.

Since ogham inscriptions consist almost exclusively of personal names and marks possibly indicating land ownership, linguistic information that may be glimpsed from the Primitive Irish period is mostly restricted to phonological developments.

The carvings contain no representation of humans or animals as required by Islam, and consist entirely of inscriptions and geometric patterns.

They are depicted on votive objects and altars that bear images of goddesses, depicted almost entirely in groups of three, that feature inscriptions ( about half of which feature Celtic names, and half of which feature Germanic names ), that were venerated in regions of Germania, Eastern Gaul, and upper Italy ( with a small distribution elsewhere ) that were occupied by the Roman army from the first to the fifth century AD.

Ardhanarishvara conveys that Shiva and Shakti are one and the same, an interpretation also declared in inscriptions found along with Ardhanarishvara images in Java and the eastern Malay Archipelago.

' Abd al-Malik introduced standard coinage that featured Arabic inscriptions, instead of images of the monarch.

Although, the narrative of the Devichandragupta is not supported by any contemporary epigraphical evidence, the historicity of Rama Gupta is proved by his Durjanpur inscriptions on three Jaina images, where he is mentioned as the Maharajadhiraja.

The outside of the cup retained much of the clay background and typically bore only a few small images, sometimes only inscriptions, or in some cases the entire cup was only minimally decorated.

The custom however, clearly predates these codes, and was not limited to Israel ; images of the custom have been found on several ancient Near East inscriptions in contexts suggesting that it was practiced across the Near East.

These include graphic design, logo design, type design, paintings, scholarship, maps, menus, greeting cards, invitations, legal documents, diplomas, cut stone inscriptions, memorial documents, props and moving images for film and television, business cards, and handmade presentations.

In 1643 he was appointed by their Captain-General, the Earl of Manchester as " Commissioner for the destruction of monuments of idolatry and superstition " to carry out a Parliamentary Ordinance of 28 August 1643 which stated that " all Monuments of Superstition and Idolatry should be removed and abolished ", specifying: " fixed altars, altar rails, chancel steps, crucifixes, crosses, images of the Virgin Mary and pictures of saints or superstitious inscriptions.

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But later, three inscriptions on Jaina tirthankara images were discovered from Durjanpur near Vidisha, which mention him as the Maharajadhiraja.

It was compiled from literary works and inscriptions on images of the god by an unknown editor, who composed the introductory epigram.

Often both hilt and blade can be ornately engraved with inscriptions, designs, and images, such as a largely stylised phallus decoration.

The walls of this chamber contain sculpted images of Naranarayana, related inscriptions and other gods.

His works can be divided into two categories, the formal religious images covered with oracular inscriptions and the paintings of memories from his youth.

The Sanskrit inscriptions at the foot of the images indicate that they were put in the temple in 1678 A. D.

These images were later recarved by Horemheb who also usurped Tutankhamun's restoration inscriptions.

The antiquities of the museum include terracotta plaques, images of different gods and goddess ', pottery, coin inscriptions, ornamental bricks and other minor clay objects.

All of the surviving bells made by Motorin are known for their casting purity and rich relief decorations ( stylized arabesque ornament and images of cherubs and seraphs, which harmonize with cast inscriptions ).

Other information comes from the images that often adorn the walls of Egyptian tombs and the translation of the accompanying inscriptions.