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Dr. Bietak, who has led excavations at Tell el-Dab’a since 1966, said that the Egyptians appear to have adopted the custom some 50 to 80 years earlier than the inscriptional and pictorial evidence.

From New York Times • May 16, 2023

No inscriptional use of this cycle has come to notice.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various

This variety is traced back in inscriptional records to A.D.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various

In consequence of the quantity used in the inscriptional tablets of monuments, for which this seems to be the favourite material, nero antico is extremely scarce in modern Rome.

From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Macmillan, Hugh

Many of them are written in semi-rhythmical style, a form which was favored by the inscriptional mode of writing.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert