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
Lot 104, an “important epigraphic panel with interlacings from the palace of Mas’ud III,” was dated to the 12th century, from the capital of the Ghaznavid Empire, in what is today Afghanistan.
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
The spelling of the second name deserves attention, because it is certainly intentional, as Damasus and his engraver Furius Dionysius Philocalus are distinguished for absolute epigraphic correctness.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo
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