epigraphic
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The stone bore a Khmer epigraphic inscription that included the date for the Khmer year 605, reckoned within the Hindu Saka system, a historical calendar based on the rule of the Indian emperor Shalivahana.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 28, 2022
But because many of the Ghazni marbles in the Italian database are epigraphic, they can be identified by the writing unique to each of them.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2021
This epigraphic tendency is also evident in an alam, or royal standard, made of perforated gilt copper in the silhouette of a falcon.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2015
Layering on the sources thick, she seems to create a sort of epigraphic narrative of its own.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2010
There is no style of writing but should have a certain trace of kinship with the epigraphic or monumental style, which is, indeed, the ancestor of all styles.
From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; The Art of Literature by T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey) Saunders
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