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Nevertheless, it is not impossible that the reverse inscription is separated temporally from the obverse.
In the case of the James ossuary, there would have indeed been room on the front, yet the scribe elected to carve the inscription on the back.
As with the Bixler pieces, printer's type was used to impress an inscription around the rim.
But, as she reads the Braille inscription on it there is no mistaking her pride.
This inscription awakens the memory of the people whose sons and daughters were intended for total extermination.
The capitalization reduces the top inscription to its barest signification, equating Morrison's name directly with her prize.
An ancient sign nailed to the front of the largest barn bore the inscription Dog's Ear.
That stone contains an inscription showing that the Moabites also killed everything living of their enemies.
An inscription describing the truce was written on a bronze discus which was displayed at Olympia.
The tablet is made of Sicilian marble, framed in alabaster, and the inscription bears a mosaic border in blue and gold.
Lemaire did not notice that the first part of the inscription is carved by a different hand than that of the second part.
Skillfully, he carved an inscription, blew away the stray pieces of tree bark, and stood back to look at it.
He realized this was not just a monument but also a grave, and the inscription was an epitaph.
A sidelight is shed by a broken inscription which archaeologists discovered some seventy years ago at Delphi.
Difficulties of no ordinary kind presented themselves to all who had applied to make out even the second, or enchorial inscription.
Daguerre even handwrote an inscription to Cailleux on the back of the mount.
There are three pylons surrounding the gate, and I'll bet that this inscription is repeated two more times, once on each of the walls.
I set my cup aside for personal inscription the next time he comes through town, and that got me to thinking.
It is exactly about the stipulation that warrants inscription of the numbers and letters in black against a white backdrop.
There's a barely controlled abandon, and more than a hint of anxiety that once the act of inscription has begun, it can't be undone.
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He frowned over the delicate task of starting the film, inquired offhandedly, You got the photostat of the label inscription?
An inscription on the architrave immediately below the figure of Dionysos furnishes the name and date of the dedicator.
It is a stel of black basalt, bearing an inscription in Hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek.
Further proof that this contention is correct is that each copy bears an inscription in Whitman's holograph.
Because of its odd Latin inscription, the bridge of dinant has also been much sung.
Another inscription boasts that the subject of it could transfix an arrow in its flight with another arrow.
The first clue to these questions was, as in the parallel case of Egypt, afforded by a trilingual inscription.
Mr. Holder says that he recognized familiar Mayan symbols in the inscription.
The inscription was ich bin eine Gans, and you can translate it for yourself.
Part of the inscription on stela N, Copan, showing a number composed of six periods.
Up to the present time no successful interpretation of the inscription on stela C at Copan has been advanced.
Webster defines a chronogram as an inscription, sentence, or phrase in which certain letters express a date or epoch.
A copy of this inscription is preserved in the collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, vol.
A hand extending the index-finger, pointing to a chalice and the host, with the inscription, digitus Dei hic est.
Whether this inscription was ever attached to a labyrinthine design is not known.
A second tomb of the vicinity, also marked by an undecipherable inscription, is of similar character.
Another inscription records the fact that it was the work of Nicholas, the son of Bartolommeus of Foggia.
One arch of his palace still remains, with an inscription telling us how under him Foggia became a royal and Imperial seat.
In this palace a seal was found bearing a lion and the inscription belonging to Shema, the servant of Jeroboam.
But the dove has long since disappeared, and there remains now but the rod and the inscription.
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