inscription
noun
something inscribed.
inscriptional
-
a word derived from
inscription.
Example Sentences
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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
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 Hugh Macmillan
Modern research, however, based largely on the inscriptional records, has shown that there was no such king, and that the real facts are very different.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
From the first the elegiac metre was instinctively recognised as one of the best suited for inscriptional poems.
From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by J. W. (John William) Mackail
