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epigraphist

American  
[i-pi-gruhf-ist] / ɪˈpɪ grəf ɪst /

noun

  1. an expert in epigraphy, the study and interpretation of ancient inscriptions.


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The tablet was considered by many biblical scholars to be the oldest physical artifact connected to Christianity, says epigraphist John Bodel of Brown University, who was not involved in the new study.

From Science Magazine Feb. 28, 2020

While the epigraphist could recognize the characters, some of them formed words of a language he had never encountered.

From Time Magazine Archive

The great epigraphist was, at this moment, three hundred and sixty-three and one-half miles—to be precise—out from New York.

From Mr. Achilles by Jennette Lee

It was the Halcyon Club of the North Side, assembling to listen to Professor Addison Trent, the great epigraphist, who was to discourse to them on the inscriptions of Cnossus, the buried town of Crete.

From Mr. Achilles by Jennette Lee

To an epigraphist especially it must be interesting to see what were the mistakes which an imperfectly educated Italian in that age was most likely to commit.

From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Thomas Hodgkin

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