Syrian epigraphy (for instance in inscriptions of the third century (Comptes Rendus Acad.
And besides, in a general way, epigraphy gives us but little information about the liturgy and almost nothing regarding the doctrines.
Thus epigraphy not merely confirms the evidence of the Mahabhashya that artificial court poetry originated before the commencement of our era, but shows that that poetry continued to be cultivated throughout the succeeding centuries.
The literature which deals with the science of epigraphy is very large.
The science of epigraphy is of immense importance for a knowledge of the past, the subject including inscriptions so far apart in point of time as Egyptian records of the days of Mena (4700 B.
The epigram survived the pontificate of Paul III only in a few rare echoes, while epigraphy continued to flourish till the seventeenth century, when it perished finally of bombast.
Epigraphy and literary epigrams began to link up; the former was based on a most diligent study of the ancient monuments.
Having weakened his eyesight by the study of documents of the middle ages, he turned his attention to epigraphy and numismatics.
He made epigraphy his particular theme, and at the age of twenty-three became a professor of rhetoric at Angouleme, where he lived and worked for ten years without further ambition.
And it was the work of one great scholar, Augustus Boeckh, to raise Greek epigraphyinto a science.
Modern critical research in the field of epigraphy began with the detection of those forgeries (especially of the very extensive and skilful ones of Pirro Ligorio, the architect to the house of Este) by Maffei, Olivieri and Marini.
Iwan von Muller's Handbuch der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft important articles on both Greek and Latin epigraphy and alphabets have appeared (Greek in edition 1 by G.
For Greek epigraphy the fullest and also most recent work is W.
Epigraphy and Palæography, Philology, and Diplomatic with its adjuncts (technical Chronology and Sphragistic) are not the only subjects of study which subserve historical research.
This ancient epigraphy often betrays extreme ignorance, and sets at defiance all the laws of grammatical construction.
There is not in the whole range of early Christian epigraphy the slightest indication of the Romish doctrine of Transubstantiation; which, indeed, as Dr.
Both interpretations are entirely gratuitous suppositions, for which Christian epigraphy furnishes absolutely no warrant.
Hence the letters of these Damasine inscriptions are as distinct a characteristic in early Christian epigraphy as the celebrated Aldine type in the bibliography of the revival of learning.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "epigraphy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: criticism; cryptography; lexicography
