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 inscription honours his father, also called Alexander and also a philosopher.

He also quotes an inscription from the 10th Century king of Sri Lanka, Mahinda IV ( 956-972 CE ) who had the words inscribed " none but the bodhisattvas would become kings of Sri Lanka ", among other examples.

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.

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.

Risdon also stated that the original tomb bore an inscription: " They fyrste that fyndes and bringes mee to my grave, The priorie of Plimstoke they shall have ", but no sign of this has ever been found.

Additionally, according to Plutarch's essay on the meaning of the " E at Delphi "-- the only literary source for the inscription --- there was also inscribed at the temple a large letter E. Among other things epsilon signifies the number 5.

This root also appears in the Linear B inscription E-ne-si-da-o-ne, " earth-shaker ", as an aspect of the god Poseidon.

Domitian is also credited on the easternmost Roman evidence known, the rock inscription near Boyukdash mountain, in present-day Azerbaijan.

The Gezer calendar, an Israelite or Canaanite inscription c. 900 BCE, also begins in the fall.

Beit Lehi also contains the oldest known Hebrew writing of the word “ Jerusalem ” It's written as the inscription “ I am YHWH thy Lord.

Although most surviving instances of the word refer to spiritual matters, it was also used in more mundane situations, as in the Viking Age runestone poem from the inscription Sö 56 from Fyrby:

* In a Licchavi period inscription ( found on archeological stoneworks, which list mostly the dates and commissioners of these constructions, also communicate royal edicts, religious mantras or historical notes ) mention the Kirata, that through the corroboration of local myths and the Vamsavalis, identify a people prior to the Licchavi dynasty.

The inscription corpus consists of two monuments which were erected in the Orkhon Valley between 732 and 735 in honour of the two Kokturk prince Kul Tigin and his brother the emperor Bilge Kağan, as well as inscriptions on slabs scattered in the wider area. The script was also used for the epic poetry of the Turkic people.

Two prominent sources do exist for Urban's pontificate: Eusebius ' history of the early Church and also an inscription in the Coemeterium Callisti which names the Pope.

From among the writings of others in the same period, there is the inscription and engraving of Darius the great, installed at junction of waters of Red Sea ( also called " Arabian Gulf " or " Ahmar Sea ") and the Nile river and the Rome river ( current Mediterranean ) which belongs to the 5th century BC where, Darius the Great, the king of the Achaemenid Empire has named the Persian Gulf Water Channel: Pars Sea ( Persian Sea ).

An Egyptian funerary inscription of 1430 BC records that the warrior Amenhotep ( Amenophis ) II was also renowned for his feats of oarsmanship.

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.

It is considered striking that Sennacherib not only left his father's city, but also doesn ’ t name him in any official inscription during his reign.

An inscription of Sumyafa ' Ashwa ' also mentions two kings ( nagaśt ) of Aksum, indicating that the two may have co-ruled for a while before Kaleb abdicated in favor of Alla Amidas.

Although he was primarily associated with Mercury, Visucius was also sometimes linked to the Roman god Mars, as a dedicatory inscription to " Mars Visucius " and Visucia, Visicius ' female counterpart, was found in Gaul.

It depicts the six corporate acts of mercy — feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, clothing the naked, sheltering the homeless, visiting prisoners and the sick, and the inscription reads: " This window is sacred to the memory of Mary Anning of this parish, who died 9 March AD 1847 and is erected by the vicar and some members of the Geological Society of London in commemoration of her usefulness in furthering the science of geology, as also of her benevolence of heart and integrity of life.

Kerenyi suggests that the name Ariadne ( derived from, hagne, " pure "), was an euphemistical name given by the Greeks to the nameless " Mistress of the labyrinth " who appears in a Mycenean Greek inscription from Knossos in Crete.

From a Phoenician inscription on its lid, it appears that he was a " king of the Sidonians ," probably in the 5th century BCE, and that his mother was a priestess of ‘ Ashtart, " the goddess of the Sidonians.

The title of " princeps " had been used by the indigenous peoples of Northern Spain and its use appears in Galician and Cantabrian inscriptions, in which expressions like " Nícer, Príncipe de los Albiones " ( on an inscription found in the district of Coaña ) and " princeps cantabrorum " ( over a gravestone of the municipality of Cistierna, in Leon ).

The name Israel first appears c. 1209 BCE, at the end of the Late Bronze Age and the very beginning of the period archaeologists and historians call Iron Age I, in an inscription of the Egyptian pharaoh Merneptah.

In the 7th century BC royal inscription from Tel Miqne-Ekron the name Achish appears, along with four other names of the local kings of Ekron.

" According to Mindy MacLeod and Bernard Mees, the inscription " seems to begin as a benevolent formulation before abruptly switching to the infliction of distress and misery, presumably upon the recipient of the charm rather than the baleful valkyrie ", and they posit the final line appears " to constitute a rather spiteful kind of charm aimed at securing the love of a woman ".

* Fuente Magna: A bowl with what appears to be a Sumerian inscription on it, but was found in Tiwanaku.

This was reconstructed by Nebuchadnezzar, as appears by a well-known inscription.

She is mentioned along with Angerona in one inscription, and in another her name appears in the plural.

The exact interpretation of the inscription is debated, but the phrase " to Luguei " ( where the theonym appears in the dative singular following the preposition to " to, for ", thus " to / for Lugus ") clearly indicates a dedication to the god Lugus.

An inscription of some 180 Chinese characters appears twice on the vessel, commenting on state rituals that accompanied a court ceremony.

While the crack in the bell appears to end at the abbreviation " Philad < sup > a </ sup >" in the last line of the inscription, that is merely the 19th century widened crack which was filed out in the hopes of allowing the bell to continue to ring ; a hairline crack, extending through the bell to the inside continues generally right and gradually moving to the top of the bell, through the word " and " in " Pass and Stow ", then through the word " the " before the word " Assembly " in the second line of text, and through the letters " rty " in the word " Liberty " in the first line.

It appears on coins, at the end of documents made public by inscription in stone or metal, in dedications of monuments and public works, and was emblazoned on the standards of the Roman legions.

The Shroud of St Josse is a famous samite cloth from East Persia, which originally had a carpet-like design with two pairs of confronted elephants, surrounded by borders including rows of camels and an inscription in Kufic script, from which the date appears to be before 961.

The inscription appears at the bottom of all reverse designs before April 2008.

The inscription appears on either side of the emblem.

The first inscription in which the name Srivijaya appears also dates from the 7th century, namely the Kedukan Bukit Inscription around Palembang in Sumatra, dated 683.

The obverse of the Cartwheel coinage is a rather fine laureated right-facing bust of George III, with the inscription, while the reverse showed the seated Britannia, facing left, holding an olive branch and trident with the inscription — although it appears that coins were minted for several years, but all with the 1797 date.

He used an Eastern Iranian, Indo-European language known as Bactrian ( called " αρια ," i. e. " Aryan " in the Rabatak inscription ), which appears in Greek script in his inscriptions, though it is not certain what language the Kushans originally spoke ; possibly some form of Tocharian-a " centum " Indo-European language.

The first appearance of a tomb with a memorial inscription ( to Daphnis ) amid the idyllic settings of Arcadia appears in Virgil's Eclogues V 42 ff.

She appears in numerous literary sources, including an official dedicatory inscription at Pergamon.

The first recorded instance of the name of the god appears in the Migration Period, where a piece of jewelry ( a fibula ), the Nordendorf fibula, dating from the 7th century AD and found in Bavaria, bears an Elder Futhark inscription that contains the name " Þonar ", i. e. " Donar ", the southern Germanic form of the god's name.