A group of MIT hackers responded by altering the banner so that the inscription read " The Only Institute of Technology.

This inscription read Deo Ceruninco, " to the God Cerunincos ", assumed to be the same deity.

" In Bronze Age Crete, an inscription da-da-re-jo-de has been read as referring to a place at Knossos, and a place of worship.

A wry trick of others is to request the reader to get off their resting place, inasmuch as the reader would have to be standing on the ground above the coffin to read the inscription.

Legend has it that carved into the wall above the shelves was an inscription that read: The place of the cure of the soul.

The Greek phrase to describe the phenomenon is (; " crab inscription "), or simply karkinoi (; " crabs "), alluding to the movement of crabs, such as an inscription that may be read backwards.

Seven years later, on the anniversary of what would have been her 100th birthday, her husband placed an inscription on her tomb that read in part:

The full inscription read: Iste est gladius Principis et haeredis Boleslai Ducis Poloniae et Masoviae, Lanciciae (" This is a sword of Hereditary Prince Boleslaus, Duke of Poland, Masovia, and Łęczyca ").

The last straw was when Don Salvador read in a Barcelona newspaper that his son had recently exhibited in Paris a drawing of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ, with a provocative inscription: " Sometimes, I spit for fun on my mother's portrait ".

The Latin inscription on the coins read, " ZVEN REX DÆNOR ", which translates as " Sven, king of Danes ".

In the Vologeses inscription one can read that Vologeses I, the Parthian king, in the 11th year of his reign, battled Kuluk, king of the Alani.

Fellows could not read the Lycian inscription, except for one line identifying a person of illegible name, to whom the monument was erected, termed the son of Arppakhu in Lycian, equivalent to Greek Harpagos.

The inscription read: "...( Alex ) andros son of Menides, citizen of Antioch on the Maeander made this ( statue )...".

The inscription can be read as ' mp C G Val Lic Licin ' which would refer to the Emperor Licinius ( d. 324 ).

The inscription can be read as ' Aelnat fecit hanc crucem pro anima sua ' ( Ælnat made this cross for good of his soul ) ( the back of the stone has the names of the four evangelists ): the name of this man is Saxon ( together with Alfwy mentioned in 1086 he is the only Anglo-Saxon recorded in connection with the area ).

Duchamp added an inscription, which when read out loud in French sounds like " Elle a chaud au cul " literally translated: " she has a hot ass ", implying the woman in the painting is in a state of sexual excitement and intended as a Freudian joke ..

The inscription matar kubileya at a Phrygian rock-cut shrine, dated to the first half of the 6th century BCE, is usually read as " Mother of the mountain ", a reading supported by ancient Classical sources, and consistent with Cybele as any of several similar tutelary goddesses, each known as " mother " and associated with specific Anatolian mountains or other localities ; a goddess " born from stone ".

According to Cornelius Nepos, in his defense Epaminondas merely requested that, if he be executed, the inscription regarding the verdict read: Epaminondas was punished by the Thebans with death, because he obliged them to overthrow the Lacedaemonians at Leuctra, whom, before he was general, none of the Boeotians durst look upon in the field, and because he not only, by one battle, rescued Thebes from destruction, but also secured liberty for all Greece, and brought the power of both people to such a condition, that the Thebans attacked Sparta, and the Lacedaemonians were content if they could save their lives ; nor did he cease to prosecute the war, till, after settling Messene, he shut up Sparta with a close siege.

This altar bears the inscription seen and misread by S. Justin ( Semoni Sanco Deo read as Simoni Deo Sancto ) and was discovered on the island in July, 1574.

Paul Hentzner, a German traveler who visited England c. 1599 records that her faded tombstone inscription read in part:

A silver statuette found at Cockersand Moss, Lancashire, in 1718 but now lost, had an inscription on the base which read:

The inscription sit intra te concordia et publica felicitas, which can still be read on the gate, refers directly to the conflict with the Duke.

" The inscription read: " To Steve -- who has been a son to me.

Nevertheless, between 120, 000 and 140, 000 people were able to pass by the open casket and then the bell, carefully placed at Lincoln's head so mourners could read the inscription, " Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.

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

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

Sword of Goujian | The Bronze sword of King Goujian of Yue ( reigned 496 BCE-465 BCE ), with bird script ; detail — part of inscription: " 越王自作 " Yuè Wáng zì zuò, “ Made by the King of Yuè ”.

The constructed name Dvaravati was confirmed by a Sanskrit plate inscription containing the name “ Dvaravati ”.

Algernon, however, refuses his consent until Ernest explains why his cigarette case bears the inscription, “ From little Cecily, with her fondest love to her dear Uncle Jack .” John-Ernest is forced to admit to living a double life.

On its base ( fragments are now in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum ), an inscription praises him as “ everywhere and forever victorius .”

On seals of the king and his mother Alix in 1234, a castle with one or two towers is depicted surrounded with the inscription “ CIVITAS NICOSIE ”.

The inscription on his tombstone begins with the words, “ A great and dark horror befalls us from the hiding of the light of Rabbeinu ...”

The inscription reads: “ Belonging to Ahaz ( son of ) Yehotam, King of Judah .” Given the process that created and preserved bullae, they are virtually impossible to forge.

The inscription reads “ Hanged and thrown in Spring Creek by Col. James Duff ’ s Confederate Regiment .”

The inscription reads “ Hanged and thrown in Spring Creek by Col. James Duff ’ s Confederate Regiment .”

The inscription reads “ Hanged and thrown in Spring Creek by Col. James Duff ’ s Confederate Regiment .”

A monument had been placed in Jedwabne in the 1960s with the inscription: “ Site of the Suffering of the Jewish Population.

The inscription on her coffin read, “ Elisabeth, Empress of Austria ”.

His adventure among the tombs is described in terms that suggest Christ ’ s “ harrowing of Hell ” and resurrection: he effortlessly lifts the lid off the sarcophagus, which bears an inscription foretelling his freeing of the captives.

The house he lived in bears an inscription in ancient Greek that reads: “ With good luck.

This inscription was modeled on the Roman “ SPQR ” ( Latin populusque Senatus Romanus-the Senate and People of Rome ) and stands for Senatus populusque Lubecensis.

This inscription is also from 1871 and is a shortened form of the text which had previously been on the ( not preserved ) foregate: “ Concordia domi et pax foris sane res est omnium pulcherrima ” (“ Harmony within and peace without are indeed the greatest good of all ”; see “ Outer Holsten Gate ” below ).

The Heemstede replenished their supplies with fresh water, fish, seals and penguins and left a wooden tablet with the inscription “ Today, 17 February 1643, from the Dutch fluyt Heemstede, Claes Gerritsz Bierenbroodspot from Hoorn and Jan Coertsen van den Broec landed here .”.

Sir Galahad survives this test, witnessed by King Arthur who, upon realizing the greatness of this new knight, leads him out to the river where a sword lies in a stone with an inscription reading “ Never shall man take me hence but only he by whose side I ought to hang ; and he shall be the best knight of the world .” ( The embedding of a sword in a stone is also an element of the legends of Arthur's original sword, The sword in the stone.

Each had on his chest a black plaque with the white colored inscription: “ A regicide ”.

Amongst them the new banner of Vincennes was conspicuous, bearing the inscription in red letters on a white ground, “ Love one another .” A balloon was then sent up, which let fall at intervals, outside Paris, a manifesto of the Freemasons.

The statue, signed by sculptor Thomas Campbell, holds a scroll and the inscription reads: “ Sarah Siddons.