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
This epigraphic tendency is also evident in an alam, or royal standard, made of perforated gilt copper in the silhouette of a falcon.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2015
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
Sylvester and Martin, is preserved in section II. of the Christian epigraphic museum of the Lateran.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo
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