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
And no contemplation of the epigraph would be complete without a mention of George Eliot. Middlemarch is an epigraphic master-class, each of the 86 chapters coloured by an introductory source.
From The Guardian • Mar. 30, 2010
To the literary sources for the history of Greece, especially of Athens, in the 5th century B.C. must be added the epigraphic.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
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