If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.

The regulations require the inscription of each individual ( male or female, adult or child ) on a separate card ( fiche ).

Each adult is held personally responsible for assuring his inscription and obtaining an identification card which must be shown on demand.

The oldest text in Phoenician script is an inscription on the sarcophagus of King Ahiram.

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!

* 1864 – The U. S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.

Early evidence of their use in Britain includes: an equal hour horary quadrant from 1396, in England, a 1445 inscription on the tower of Heathfield Church, Sussex ; a 1448 inscription on a wooden lych-gate of Bray Church, Berkshire ; and a 1487 inscription on the belfry door at Piddletrenthide church, Dorset ; and in Scotland a 1470 inscription on the tomb of the first Earl of Huntly in Elgin Cathedral.

The inscription on Aeschylus's gravestone makes no mention of his theatrical renown, commemorating only his military achievements:

In Athens, Paul visits an altar with an inscription dedicated to an unknown god, so when he gives his speech on the Areopagos, he proclaims to worship that same unknown god whom he identifies as the Christian God.

Pope Martin V protested in vain against the inscription on the sarcophagus: " John the former pope ".

In the round chamber, which is below the entrance to the shaft, there are three stone slabs, the middle one of which contains a partial inscription of Sura 2, verse 255, from the Qur ' an, the famous Ayatul Kursi, Verse of the Throne.

They were typically up to about three inches across, and usually featured the head of the donor on the obverse, surrounded by an inscription with their name and title, and their emblem on the reverse, with a learned motto inscribed round the edges.

The first of these were small square stamps issued in 1859, depicting an eagle and crown in a round frame, with the inscription " COLONIES DE L ' EMPIRE FRANCAIS ".

This is the oldest existing armed seal of Warsaw, consisting of a round seal bordered with the Latin inscription Sigilium Civitatis Varsoviensis ( Seal of the city of Warsaw ).

Either way there are some who believe that the sources of Joshua predate Deuteronomy, and hence that the order to build the altar and make the inscription is likely based on these actions in the sources of Joshua, rather than the other way round, possibly to provide an aetiology for the site acceptable to the deuteronomist's theology.

The seal is round and consists of the coat of arms surrounded by an inscription with the city's official name: Stołeczne Królewskie Miasto Kraków, or " Royal Capital City of Kraków ".

The inscription, engraved on plain silver plaques, runs round the border and the spaces between cross and border have four engraved figures of the crucified Christ, Virgin and Child, a bishop making a blessing gesture, and a cleric holding a book ( possibly St John ).

The Flemish examples have the figures engraved in the centre of a large plate, the background filled in with diapered or scroll work, and the inscription placed round the edge of the plate.

Either way there is general agreement that the sources of Joshua predate Deuteronomy, and hence that the order to build the altar and make the inscription is likely based on these actions in the sources of Joshua, rather than the other way round, possibly to provide an aetiology for the site acceptable to the deuteronomist's theology.

The plinth carries two brass drinking fountain heads on opposite sides, and the inscription ; IN REMEMBRANCE OF SAMUEL GURNEY / WHO DIED THE 5TH OF JUNE 1856 / ERECTED BY HIS FELLOW PARISHIONERS AND FRIENDS / 1861 / " When the ear heard him then it blessed him " ( a paraphrase from the Book of Job, Chapter 29 verse 11 ).

The capital letters and periods following each word were probably intended to resemble an ancient Roman lapidary inscription or monumental brass, thereby accentuating Shakespeare's declaration in Sonnet 55 that the work will confer immortality to the subjects of the work:

In 1887 Lick's body was buried under the future site of the telescope, with a brass tablet bearing the inscription, " Here lies the body of James Lick ".

A black iron knocker in the shape of a lion's head is between the two middle panels ; below the knocker is a brass letter box with the inscription " First Lord of the Treasury ".

The Chicago mansion boasted a brass plate on the door with the Latin inscription, Si Non Oscillas, Noli Tintinnare (" If you don't swing, don't ring ").

* In 1887 Lick's body was buried under the future site of the telescope, with a brass tablet bearing the inscription “ Here lies the body of James Lick .”

A brass inscription bearing his name remains in the parish church, dated 1581.

The inscription on the brass tablet runs as follows:

There is also an unusual brass plaque to local landowner William Button, with a complex inscription.

A brass Square of Freemasonry symbolism was found in the foundations with an inscription dating from 1507.

Sir John, an alabaster knight with an inscription in Norman French, is here from the beginning of the 14th century, and from the end of it, in brass, are Robert and Claricia, with a greyhound and two dogs at their feet as they clasp hands, their son Thomas holding his wife's hand near them in a brass of 1405.

In addition, a " brass plate placed on the ground at the north base " shown below, contains the following inscription.

In the church window Windham's widow installed a memorial brass with the inscription:

A black marble slab was laid over his grave ( no longer present ), and an inscription in brass recording his death and that of his first wife, Elizabeth Harris.

In north chapel there is on the north wall the inscription of a brass to Thomas Cowche, d. 20 Feb. 1641 – 2, and a tablet to Charles Trimnell, rector of the parish, d. 1702, and Mary his wife, d. 1684.

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:

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

One of the plates had already been broken by that time with only part of the inscription preserved: Liste est glaud ... h Bolezlai Duc ... (" This is a sword of ... Duke Boleslaus ..."); the inscription on the other plate continued: Cum quo ei Dn SOS Omnipotens Salvator auxiletur adsus partes amen (" With whom is the Omnipotent Lord and Savior, to help him against his enemies.

A plate with an inscription found at the site claims that this building was the 4th largest amphitheatre in the whole Roman Empire.

From this town comes an inscription dating probably from early in the 3rd century BC ; it is cut upon a small bronze plate ( now in the Naples Museum ), which must have once been fixed to some votive object, dedicated to the god Declunus ( or the goddess Decluna ).

The first known use of alphabetic sampi in writing native Greek words is an inscription found on a silver plate in Ephesus, which has the words "" (" four ") and "" (" forty ") spelled with sampi ( cf.

In the middle of the room stands a metal case, with the emblem of the Guardians of the Lost Library our heroes first saw in Egypt, an Ibis symbolizing Thoth, the Egyptian deity of wisdom and writing, and an inscription on a metal plate by the last survivor of Drakeborough, saying that he had the library condensed into one single volume with every information no other surviving book in the world included.

( 9 ) Umbrian ( inscription on a bronze plate from Plestia, 4th century BC )

According to the Miholjanec legend, Stephen V of Hungary had in front of his tent a golden plate with the inscription: " Attila, the son of Bendeuci, grandson of the great Nimrod, born at Engedi: By the Grace of God King of the Huns, Medes, Goths, Dacians, the horrors of the world and the scourge of God.

The inscription plate above the entrance to the interior ( upper image )

The inscription on the plate states that it was presented " for the Humanity shewn to the Explorers Burke, Wills and King 1861 ".

His coffin had attached to it a plate of pure silver which bore the simple inscription, William Charles Wentworth, born Oct. 26th, 1793 died March, 20th, 1872.

He replaced it with a new plate which reproduced Hartog's original inscription and added notes of his own, and took Hartog's original back to Amsterdam, where it may now be seen in the Rijksmuseum.

He replaced it with one of his own, which included a copy of Hartog's inscription, and took the original plate home to Amsterdam, where it is still kept in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

The Inscription of Alba Fucus is a bronze plate inscribed with ALBSI PATRE .< ref > gives the CIL number, as the inscription was originally taken to be early Latin: CIL I < sup > 2 </ sup > 385, VI 3672, IX 4177 .</ ref > Conway reconstructs the first word as * albe ( n ) si, a dative case.

The only difference in the marginal inscription was the plate identification which was shown as a letter, ( see picture ), rather than a number as used on the general issue of postage stamps.

Curran had her buried in the grounds of the Priory and over the grave he placed a recumbent slab, on which was fixed a metal plate bearing the inscription:

A reference to " Og " appears in a Phoenician inscription from Byblos ( Byblos 13 ) published in 1974 by Wolfgang Rölling in " Eine new phoenizische Inschrift aus Byblos ," ( Neue Ephemeris für Semitische Epigraphik, vol 2, 1-15 and plate 1 ).

Attached to it was the Tzitz ( Hebrew: ציץ ), a plate of solid gold bearing the inscription " Holiness to YHWH " (, ).

In 1963, Belle Vue manor was demolished, but today a memorial plate with just that inscription has been erected at the site by the Austrian Sigmund Freud Society.

Wooden plate with inscription in a Tocharian languages | Tocharian language.

Copper plate inscription at Swayambhu dated Nepal Sambat 1072 ( 1952 AD ).