Berlin) 1906, has made careful use of the epigraphic texts dating back to the time before the Roman period.
The insufficiency of the data supplied by writers increases the value of information furnished by epigraphic and archeological documents, whose number is steadily growing.
It is now well established by epigraphic evidence (Bull.
Certainly it is difficult to give the name of literature either to the fragments of so-called Phoenician works preserved to us in Greek translations, or to the epigraphic remains of actual Phoenician writing which have come down to our day.
The epigraphic literature of the Phoenicians, which M.
From the first revival of classical learning in the Carolingian age attention was paid anew, by pilgrims to Rome and other places worth visiting, to epigraphic monuments also.
The main division is into monumental orepigraphic hieroglyphs and written hieroglyphs.
In a period in which the literary sources are so scanty great weight attaches to the epigraphic and numismatic evidence.
Epigraphic and numismatic evidence prove it to have penetrated from Rome as a centre to the remotest provinces (Showerman, pp.
The retention of the pagan title of the emperor, "the deified Commodus," is an anomalous feature in a Christian monument, although doubtless it is merely the unthinking imitation of a common epigraphic formula.
The progress of epigraphic research during the last quarter of a century has begun to shed considerable light on the history of court poetry during the dark age embracing the first five centuries of our era.
Besides the epigraphicevidence of the Gupta period, we have two important literary prose inscriptions of considerable length, one from Girnar and the other from Nasik, both belonging to the second century A.
The final disproof of the figure is furnished by evidence of an archaeological and epigraphic character.
And yet, considering the nature of epigraphic documents, the arrangement according to place was the only rational one.
On epigraphic grounds, the date may be more closely defined.
From the epigraphic standpoint, which alone concerns us here, the inscription is regarded by Canon Taylor and other scholars as supporting the theory of M.
Such, for example, would be the production of epigraphic evidence as to the sojourn and oppression of the Israelites in Egypt, and their escape from that "house of bondage.
The chief source of epigraphic evidence was an inscription (fig.
Rougé, and it has been seen that the epigraphic material found in the Ægean renders his apparently well-based and coherent theory no longer tenable.
Quattro Coronati on the Cælian, which may be called an epigraphic museum.
The spelling of the second name deserves attention, because it is certainly intentional, as Damasus and his engraver Furius Dionysius Philocalus are distinguished for absolute epigraphic correctness.
The temple and its invaluable epigraphic treasures became known towards the middle of the sixteenth century.
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