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.

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

Alemannic runic inscriptions such as those on the Pforzen buckle are among the earliest testimonies of Old High German.

Their non-Greek language is confirmed on the site by inscriptions in the Cypriot syllabary which alone in the Aegean world survived the Bronze Age collapse and continued to be used down to the 4th century BC.

* Areto and Iphito, two little-known Amazons, whose names are only attested in inscriptions on artefacts.

He published many legal works, and some annotations on Tacitus and accumulated a sylloge of Roman inscriptions from Milan and its territories, as part of his preparation for his history of Milan, written in 1504-05.

The effects of this are commonly seen on old gravestones, where acid rain can cause the inscriptions to become completely illegible.

Quite possibly it was a survival of a Roman concept of " Britain ": it is significant that, while the hyperbolic inscriptions on coins and titles in charters often included the title rex Britanniae, when England was unified the title used was rex Angulsaxonum, (' king of the Anglo-Saxons '.

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.

Though the Shang did not have a concept of " medicine " as distinct from other fields, their oracular inscriptions on bones and tortoise shells refer to illnesses that affected the Shang royal family: eye disorders, toothaches, bloated abdomen, etc., which Shang elites usually attributed to curses sent by their ancestors.

Some examples of Cirth writings are the inscription on Balin's tomb in Moria and the inscriptions on the top of the title pages for The Lord of the Rings.

The name Cernunnos can be read clearly on 18th century drawings of the inscriptions, but the initial letter has been obscured since, so that today only a reading ernunnos can be verified

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.

Drawing of the inscriptions on the Piacenza liver, see haruspex.

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.

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.

In Croatia, from the 12th century, Glagolitic inscriptions appeared mostly in littoral areas: Istria, Primorje, Kvarner and Kvarner islands, notably Krk, Cres and Lošinj ; in Dalmatia, on the islands of Zadar, but there were also findings in inner Lika and Krbava, reaching to Kupa river, and even as far as Međimurje and Slovenia.

Inscriptions on coins connect him with Falerii in Etruria and this may well have been his birthplace ; it has yielded many inscriptions relating to his mother's family, the Egnatii.

However, thanks to recent discoveries of some inscriptions on Halicarnassus, dated to about that time, we now know that the Ionic dialect was used there even in official documents, so there was no need to assume like the Suda that he must have learned the dialect elsewhere.

Imhotep's historicity is confirmed by two contemporary inscriptions made during his lifetime on the base or pedestal of one of Djoser's statues ( Cairo JE 49889 ) and also by a graffito on the enclosure wall surrounding Sekhemkhet's unfinished step-pyramid.

Archaeologically, concrete indications of Mauryan rule, such as the inscriptions of the Edicts of Ashoka, are known as far as Kandahar in southern Afghanistan.

This would tend to be corroborated archaeologically, as concrete indications of Mauryan influence, such as the inscriptions of the Edicts of Ashoka which are known to be located in, for example, Kandhahar in today's southern Afghanistan.

Archaeologically, concrete indications of Mauryan rule, such as the inscriptions of the Edicts of Ashoka, are known as far as Kandhahar in southern Afghanistan.

Archaeologically, concrete indications of Mauryan rule, such as the inscriptions of the Edicts of Ashoka, are known as far as Kandahar in southern Afghanistan.

The Edicts of Ashoka are a collection of 33 inscriptions on the Pillars of Ashoka, as well as boulders and cave walls, made by the Emperor Ashoka of the Mauryan dynasty during his reign from 269 BCE to 231 BCE.

The contemporary stone inscriptions of the Edicts of Ashoka also relate this activity in detail.

The Junagadh rock contains inscriptions of Ashoka ( fourteen of the Edicts of Ashoka ), Rudradaman I and Skandagupta.

This seems to be confirmed by the Mathura lion capital inscriptions made by Rajuvula and by one of the Edicts of Asoka.

The best-known Brāhmī inscriptions are the rock-cut edicts of Ashoka in north-central India, dated to the 3rd century BCE.

The Puranas ( ancient Indian religious texts ) and pillar inscriptions of Emperor Ashoka ( third century BCE ) mention Tripura.

The script in the edicts of Ashoka in 2nd century BC at Dhauli and Jaugada and the inscriptions of Kharavela in Hati Gumpha of Khandagiri give us the first glimpse of possible origin of Oriya language.

Also, emissaries were sent to various countries in order to spread Buddhism, as far as the Greek kingdoms in the West ( in particular the neighboring Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, and possibly even farther according to the inscriptions left on stone pillars by Ashoka ).

In these inscriptions, Ashoka refers to himself as " Beloved of the Gods " and " King Priya-darshi.

Following his conversion, Ashoka traveled throughout India and visited sacred Buddhist locations, where he would typically erect a pillar bearing his inscriptions:

Ashoka had displayed divine support in his inscriptions ; although a Buddhist ruler, he had repeatedly called himself Devanampiya, which literally meant " Beloved Of The Gods " in Pali.

In Allahabad there is a pillar with inscriptions from Ashoka and later inscriptions attributed to Samudragupta and Jehangir.

The inscriptions on the edicts of Ashoka ( 1st millennium BCE ) display this number system being used by the Imperial Mauryas.

Local sights include Lahor, where Pāṇini is believed to have composed the Sanskrit grammar, and near which Alexander the Great and his Greek army crossed the Indus on his way to India, Shabaz Ghari famous for the Ashoka inscriptions and Takht Bhai, the site of one of the best preserved Buddhist monasteries.

Kalinga in 265 BCE – Ashoka n inscriptions record hundreds of thousands dying from famine and disease after the Kalinga War in 269 BCE.

Ashoka gave importance to Kaushambi and placed a pillar of Ashoka in Kaushambi, which has inscriptions there in Pali.

Muhammad Salih Tahtawi of Sindh headed the task of creating a massive, seamless celestial globe using a secret wax casting method in the Mughal Empire, the famous celestial globe of Muhammad Salih Tahtawi is inscribed with Arabic and Persian language | Persian inscriptions and was completed in the year 1631 during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir.

An Neo-Assyrian Empire | Assyrian mace head with inscriptions

Corinthian vase depicting Perseus, Andromeda ( mythology ) | Andromeda and Ketos ; the names are written in the archaic Greek alphabet. Simonides was popularly accredited with the invention of four letters of the revised alphabet and, as the author of inscriptions, he was the first major poet who composed verses to be read rather than recited.

Nestorian Church | Nestorian tombstone with inscriptions in Uyghur alphabet | Uyghur, found in Issyk Kul, dated 1312.

Czech language | Czech inscriptions smeared by Sudeten German activists, March 1938

Silver coin of Chandragupta II the Great, minted in his Western territories, in the style of the Western Satraps. Obv: Bust of king, with corrupted Greek legend " OOIHU ".< ref >" Evidence of the conquest of Saurashtra ( region ) | Saurastra during the reign of Chandragupta II is to be seen in his rare silver coins which are more directly imitated from those of the Western Satraps ... they retain some traces of the old inscriptions in Greek characters, while on the reverse, they substitute the Gupta type ( a peacock ) for the chaitya with crescent and star.

Etruscan language | Etruscan inscriptions on the bronze sheep's liver of Piacenza

File: Islamic Celestial Globe 01. jpg | Muhammad Salih Tahtawi of Sindh, headed the task of creating a massive, seamless celestial globe using a secret wax casting method in the Mughal Empire, the famous celestial globe of Muhammad Salih Tahtawi is inscribed with Arabic and Persian inscriptions and was completed in the year 1631.

One of a pair of inscriptions at the original entrance, the work of the David Kindersley | Kindersley workshop

The Jawi inscriptions are of local laws influenced by the Shariah and thus one of the earliest proof of Islam in Malaysia | Islamic influence in Malaysia.

Image: Garejawriting. jpg | Georgian Asomtavruli inscriptions at the entrance of S. David's lavra.

Such an etymology seems unlikely as the Latin word for " plowman " was arātor, not * artor ( in fact a gentilic name potentially derived from arātor, Arātrius an epithet of Jupiter ( mythology ) | Jupiter, is attested in inscriptions from Aquileia, Altinum, Pola, and Montefalcone ; compare, too the word arātōrius " fit for ploughing ", used of oxen and fields ).

Shang Dynasty # Gallery | Bronzeware from the Shang Dynasty ( 1600 – 1046 BC ); Song era antiquarians and archeologists in search of antiques for reviving ancient rituals claimed to have found bronzewares dated as far back as the Shang era, which contained written inscriptions.

File: 1983 World Series Trophy. jpg | The trophy from the 1983 World Series ; this side-angle view shows the inscriptions on the team flags.

Image: Yalvaç ' taki antik kalıntılar. jpg | Ancient Roman inscriptions in Yalvaç

Map of North America from 1566 showing Italian language | Italian inscriptions, both Terra In Cognita and Mare In Cognito

File: WadiRumPetroglyphs. jpg | Thamudic inscriptions in Wadi Rum

File: Jam afghanistan ghorprovince islamic architecture. jpg | Minaret of Jam, Decorative inscriptions on the exterior

Gold inscriptions on bronze in the shape of bamboo, issued by King Huai of Chu to the E ( state ) | subkingdom of E, in 323 BCE.

Image: Tocharian. JPG | Wooden plate with inscriptions in Tocharian.

File: Blue and white porcelain box with Arabic and Persian inscriptions Zhengde 1506 1521. jpg | Blue and white porcelain box, with Arabic and Persian inscriptions, Zhengde ( 1506-1521 ).