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
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
Another author who regularly carries this off to good effect is Jim Crace, whose phoney epigraphic authorities include poets, historians and "excavationists".
From The Guardian • Mar. 30, 2010
Even Colonel Tod by no means held this view in its entirety, and modern epigraphic research has caused its partial or complete abandonment Mr. V.A.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)
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