There were several tomb-stones, but the inscriptions were either worn-out or unintelligible to us, and the place choked up with nettles and brambles.
Should he bring manuscripts or marbles, precious vases or inscriptions in half-legible Greek character?
Close by is a small study with inscriptions to the Muses and Apollo.
On various parts of the walls are carvings and inscriptionsshowing that the different bastions were built at different times.
Remarkable absence in Mysore of old records orinscriptions relating to gold mining.
And now, before proceeding with my narrative of gold mining in Mysore, I pause for one moment to note the rather remarkable fact that it seems impossible to find in old records orinscriptions any reference to gold mining in Mysore.
Two large stones, unhewn and without inscriptions of any sort, have been placed before the shrine.
And she drew from a case cigarettes covered with inscriptions in gold, in a foreign language.
In the names of demons, and in the fables concerning them, the struggles of man in his ages of weakness with peril, want, and death, are recorded more fully than in any inscriptions on stone.
This Demon of Inundation meets the explorer of Egyptian and Accadian inscriptionsat every turn.
But at different periods long vowels were sometimes indicated ininscriptions thus: (1.
It may be mentioned that inscriptions which employ the apex are by no means consistent in its use, and that late inscriptions have it over short and long vowels, apparently for decorative purposes.
But #-d# is almost entirely confined to inscriptions and disappeared early (149).
It occurs most frequently in inscriptions about the year 150 B.
Other case forms are found in inscriptions as follows: N.
Most of the rock inscriptions in the Buddhist caverns in the west of India are preceded or followed by the holy (sacramentelle) sign of the Swastika.
Most of theinscriptions on the Buddhist caverns in western India are either preceded or followed by the holy (sacramentelle) sign of the Swastika.
On two corners of the stone are inscriptions of the usual Ogam characters.
The sign of the Swastika is reported in great numbers, by hundreds if not by thousands, in the inscriptions on the rock walls of the Buddhist caves in India.
This is a Pagan tomb, as evidenced by the inscriptionscommenced "D.
The Swastika disappeared from there as it came, in its sacred form, with the Phenician influence, with the Phenician inscriptionson the vases, with the concentric circles without central points or tangents.
Their use of it on the bronze statues of Buddha, and associating it with solemn inscriptions in the caves of India, leaves no doubt as to its use as a symbol more or less of this character.
These characters were once very extensively used in ornamental writing, and even now the word [Z circle] sun may be found in many of the famous stone inscriptions of that age, which have been preserved to us up to the present day.
As the archaeologist and historian he has examined inscriptions and monuments, buildings, ornaments, and weapons, and has studied documents and manuscripts in many languages of which the ordinary literary man knows nothing.
Whether the two famous inscriptions to Hercules by the sons of Vertuleius and by Mummius belong here or not it is hard to say.
VIII), and Martin, Notes on the Syntax of the Latin Inscriptions Found in Spain, Baltimore, 1909.
The "temple" or chapel referred to in these inscriptions was usually semicircular, and may have served as a model for the Christian oratories.
In fact a great many honorary inscriptions from other towns tell us of officials who made generous additions to the sum required by law.
To read these twenty-five hundred or more inscriptions from all parts of the Empire brings us close to the heart of the common people.
The comparative number of guilds and of guild inscriptions would, in fact, furnish us with a rough test of the extent to which Rome impressed her civilization on different parts of the Empire, even if we had no other criteria.
It is, of course, possible from a study of these inscriptions to make out the most flourishing industries in the several towns, but with that we are not concerned here.
Such inscriptions We find on the temple walls in Egypt--three of them appear on the statue of Memnon, recording in verse the fact that the writers had visited the statue and heard the voice of the god at sunrise.
But perhaps more of the inscriptions in verse, and with them we are here concerned, are in praise of women than of men.
The gods are mentioned by name in the poetic epitaphs only, and for poetic purposes, and even here only one in fifty of the metrical inscriptions contains a direct reference to any supernatural power.
Johns), has kindly examined the facsimile of the inscriptionsfor me.
The signs for par (or bar) and mash in the inscriptions resemble each other and therefore might easily be confused by a copyist.
He further tells me that Jensen was misled by an incorrect edition of the inscriptions to which alone he had access.
Just before I came over here I spent a fortnight working at some inscriptions in a very ancient Latin monastery.
He has spent long years of labor in deciphering the inscriptions found upon ancient pillars, Egyptian and Arabic, dating five thousand years before Christ.
He has discovered a number of inscriptions in ancient Cyprian writing, and is having them engraved on copper.
On entering I found a young couple who smiled me a welcome, which was the best they could do, for, as I saw from the inscriptions on a couple of boxes, they were recent arrivals from Sweden.
Some of the mounds were not long sodded; some of the stones were newly set, their dates recent, and their black inscriptions glossy in the hardly dried lettering-ink.
Time has long effaced the inscriptions On the cloister's funeral stones, And tradition only tells us Where repose the poet's bones.
The people of Chalkis, after this narrow escape, dedicated the largest and most magnificent of all their public buildings to Titus, the inscriptions on which may be read even at the present day.
The inscriptions found at Bath name the goddess Sulia.
Footnote 310: It has been conjectured from certain inscriptions that this name should be spelt Apsephion.
He noted many strange features, understanding none at the time; he even spelt out many of the inscriptions in Phonetic lettering.
The platform slanted up on either side, and the tall buildings rose beyond, vast dim ghosts, their inscriptions and advertisements indistinctly seen, and up through the girders and cables was a faint interrupted ribbon of pallid sky.
Athwart these ran inscriptions horizontally and obliquely in an unfamiliar lettering.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inscriptions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
