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Epigraphy (from
Ancient Gr**** ἐπιγραφή (epigraphḗ) '
inscription') is the
study of
inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the
science of identifying...
- The Rūwafa
inscriptions (or Ruwwāfa
inscriptions, Rawwāfa
inscriptions) are a
group of five Gr****–Nabataean
Arabic inscriptions known from the isolated...
- name was the Académie
royale des
Inscriptions et Médailles, and its
mission was to
compose or
obtain Latin inscriptions to be
written on
public monuments...
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small corpus of
about 30-40
inscriptions and
fragments from
Serabit el-Khadim in the
Sinai Peninsula, as well as two
inscriptions from Wadi el-Hol in Middle...
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inscriptions contain "rhythmic and
parallelistic p****ages"
which resemble that of epics.
Orhon can also be
transcribed as Orhun, and the
inscriptions...
- The
Achaemenid royal inscriptions are the
surviving inscriptions in
cuneiform script from the
Achaemenid Empire,
dating from the 6th to 4th
century BCE...
- 1,608
Huayuanzhang pieces, 579 bear
inscriptions. Each of the last nine
Shang kings are
named in the
inscriptions beginning with Wu Ding,
whose accession...
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Early inscriptions were
almost always made with a
stylus into a clay mold, from
which the
bronze itself was then cast.
Additional inscriptions were often...
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biggest obstacles to
successful decipherment:
Inscriptions are very short. The
average length of the
inscriptions is
around five signs, and the
longest only...
- The
Canaanite and
Aramaic inscriptions, also
known as
Northwest Semitic inscriptions, are the
primary extra-Biblical
source for
understanding of the societies...
