epigraphy
Americannoun
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the study or science of epigraphs or inscriptions, especially of ancient inscriptions.
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inscriptions collectively.
noun
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the study of ancient inscriptions
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epigraphs collectively
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What’s needed, says Champion, is a multidisciplinary study of the stone that uses new advances in chemical analysis, epigraphy, and the study of rock-cut Elizabethan inscriptions to produce fresh data.
From National Geographic • May 29, 2018
You get this real warped view of what Maya politics and Classic society look like if you just use epigraphy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its most egregious epigraphy comes before the climactic scene.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three years later, Professor Margherita Guarducci, who teaches Greek epigraphy and antiquities at the University of Rome, began studying the inscriptions on a red plaster wall inside which the skeletal remains had been found.
From Time Magazine Archive
The epigram survived the pontificate of Paul III only in a few rare echoes, while epigraphy continued to flourish till the seventeenth century, when it perished finally of bombast.
From The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Burckhardt, Jacob
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