Its usage is mostly restricted to engravings on stone and jewelry, although inscriptions have also been found on bone and wood.

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.

One of the earliest evidence of Hindu influence in Southeast Asia were stone pillars which bear inscriptions in the Pallava script found in Kutai along the Mahakam River in East Kalimantan, dating to around the second half of the 300s AD.

The root also appears in the names of Celtic polities, most prominent among them the Carnutes, meaning something like " the Horned Ones ," and in several personal names found in inscriptions.

Outside of Italy inscriptions have been found in Africa, Corsica, Elba, Gallia Narbonensis, Greece, the Balkans and the Black Sea.

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.

Sites and places have been identified as " Arthurian " since the 12th century, but archaeology can confidently reveal names only through inscriptions found in secure contexts.

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.

Stone stelae, votive offerings, or ones probably commemmorating victories and showing feasts, are also found from temples, which unlike more official ones lack inscriptions that would explain them ; the fragmentary Stele of the Vultures is an early example of the inscribed type, and the Assyrian Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III a large and solid late one.

Among the items found are about 1000 inscriptions, 700 examples of the bull-killing scene ( tauroctony ), and about 400 other monuments.

There are also a handful of short inscriptions found on archaeological artefacts, including a number of bronze mirrors.

Other inscriptions using the same script are found in Mongolia, Siberia, and Xinjiang.

Pontifex Maximus, similar in meaning to Summus Pontifex, is a title commonly found in inscriptions on papal buildings, paintings, statues and coins, usually abbreviated as " Pont.

Inscriptions written by the Philistines have not yet been found or conclusively identified ; however, their early history is known to scholars from inscriptions in other ancient documents, such as Ancient Egyptian texts.

The earliest attested form of writing in South India is inscriptions found in caves, associated with the Chalukya and Chera dynasties.

The Rosetta Stone is listed as " a stone of black granite, bearing three inscriptions ... found at Rosetta ", in a contemporary catalogue of the artifacts discovered by the French expedition and surrendered to British troops in 1801.

Two other inscriptions of the Memphis decrees have been found since the discovery of the Rosetta Stone: the Nubayrah Stele and an inscription found at the Temple of Philae.

It was the artist and inventor Nicolas-Jacques Conté who found a way to use the stone itself as a printing block ; a slightly different method for reproducing the inscriptions was adopted by Antoine Galland.

These inscriptions, found by Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen, have been thought by some archaeologists to be of a ritual, celebratory nature, due to their large size, careful construction and-in some cases-execution by craftsmen other than the authors.

The Ninety Nine Names of God are found as calligraphic inscriptions in Persian nastNastaʿlīqinscription style of calligraphic on the sides of the actual tomb of Mumtaz Mahal, in the crypt including " O Noble, O Magnificent, O Majestic, O Unique, O Eternal, O Glorious ... ".

More than 55 % of the epigraphical inscriptions ( about 55, 000 ) found by the Archaeological Survey of India are in the Tamil language.

The earliest known Turkic inscriptions are the two monumental Orkhon inscriptions found in modern Mongolia.

The only known source of the Safaitic language, a form of proto-Arabic, is from graffiti: inscriptions scratched on to the surface of rocks and boulders in the predominantly basalt desert of southern Syria, eastern Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia.

Khazar inscriptions are mainly in an eastern Turkish runic script.

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.

The eastern parts of the Chao Phraya valley were subjected to a more Khmer and Hindu influence as the inscriptions are found in Khmer and Sanskrit.

p. 165 </ ref > Some seventeen inscriptions dedicated to Damona have been recovered, including nine from Bourbonne-les-Bains and four from Bourbon-Lancy, both spa towns in eastern France.

About a dozen inscriptions in his honour have been recovered, mainly from eastern Gaul, with a particular concentration among the Vangiones ( a Rhenish tribe ).

His name is attested in about five inscriptions from western Germany and eastern France, twice in the form Vosego Silv ( estri ) and once as Merc ( urio ) Vos ( ego ).

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.

The Oscan group is part of the Osco-Umbrian or Sabellic family, and includes the Oscan language and three variants ( Hernican, Marrucinian and Paelignian ) known only from inscriptions left by the Hernici, Marrucini and Paeligni, minor tribes of eastern central Italy.

Other notable Roman vestiges along the road, aside from those within the individual towns, include a pair of tower tombs between Bevagna and Foligno ; and along the eastern branch of the Flaminia in particular, in the area between Spoleto and Trevi, many small Romanesque churches, partly built of reused Roman stone ( spolia ) — including a few inscriptions — mark the straight line of the road quite clearly.

* Roman Forum-the largest on the eastern side of the Adriatic, founded by the first Roman Emperor Augustus, as shown by two stone inscriptions about its completion dating from the 3rd century.

Roman artifacts, some with inscriptions, have been found in the eastern part of the town at Carriden.

To date, more than a thousand fragments with similar inscriptions have been found on various archaeological sites throughout south-eastern Europe, notably in Greece ( Dispilio Tablet ), Bulgaria, former Yugoslavia, Romania, eastern Hungary, Moldova, and southern Ukraine.

Some historians ( Arthur Phayre, Tun Nyein ) put Pateikkaya in eastern Bengal, thus placing the entire Chin Hills under Pagan suzerainty but others like Harvey, citing stone inscriptions, put it near eastern Chin Hills.

These events may be associated with a Christian community there propagating ogham to the otherwise anomalous cluster of inscriptions in eastern Scotland.

Egyptian inscriptions from the 19th Dynasty show that the Pelusian arm of the Nile was considered to be the eastern border of Egypt.

The southeastern Iberian inscriptions have been found mainly in the southeastern quadrant of the Iberian Peninsula: eastern Andalusia, Murcia, Albacete, Alicante and Valencia.

An outline of this kind, pending the discovery of more definite materials to fill in the details, quite consistently prepares us for the next succeeding historical appearance of the Pallavas in Sir Walter Elliot's Vengi copper plates of Vijaya Nandi-varman and the subsequent inscriptions of the Chalukyas, at whose arrival in the Dakhan they found the Pallavas in possession of its western districts, as far at the least as the vicinity of Badami in the middle basin of the Krishna, and of its eastern districts as far north at least as Rajahmahendri in the lower basin of the Godavari, and with their capital still at Kanchipura, where Sivaskanda-varman of our present grant reigned several centuries before ..... I believe it to be, and his reign fell at any time about the end of the first century CE, or the beginning of the second.

There are several other inscriptions that might be Eteocretan, such as a set of pithos handles, both inscribed with the word ΞΡΤΑΚ ( inscribed in retrograde before firing ), recently recovered during excavations at the Archaic site of Azoria in eastern Crete.

Alexander Cunningham, one of the first to study the inscriptions on the pillars, remarks that they are written in eastern, middle and western Prakrits which he calls " the Punjabi or north-western dialect, the Ujjeni or middle dialect, and the Magadhi or eastern dialect.

Catubodua (, " battle crow ") is the name of a Gaulish goddess inferred from a single inscription in Haute Savoie, eastern France that actually reads ATHVBODVAE AVG SERVILIA TERENTIA S L M plus the debatable assumptions that an initial C has been lost and that ATEBODVAE, ATEBODVVS and ATEBODVI in 3 other inscriptions in modern Austria and Slovenia are unrelated.

Within a few months he travelled with the Italian Alessandro Ricci to Sinai: the party left Cairo and followed the peninsula's eastern coast, passing through Ayun Musa ( a candidate for the " Wells of Moses "), Wadi Gharandel and Khazne Firaoun, to arrive at Maghara, where they made copies of the hieroglyphic inscriptions.