epitaph
noun
a commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument about the person buried at that site.
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On such rumours she must feed her famishing heart—and all the time her husband's bones may be whitening unepitaphed outside the walls of Ascalon or Joppa.
From Vanishing Roads and Other Essays by Richard Le Gallienne