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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

Here the inscriptional quality is the surest test.

From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by Mackail, J. W. (John William)

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 Mackail, J. W. (John William)

This subject is all the more interesting, as the cuneiform element appears to have passed from the Greek inscriptional letters into those of the Romans, and from thence into our own capital letters.

From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Smiles, Samuel