Sentence examples for extant texts from inspiring English sources

The extant texts reveal little about Sargon himself.

The extant texts of the second group date from the 1st and 2nd centuries ce.

Most of the extant texts, dating from about 747 bce to 75 ce, are in the British Museum.

Such works were afterward written independently, the most amusing of the extant texts being Maistre Pierre Pathelin (c. 1470).

This approach has its costs, for it may seem to give priority to aspects of the tradition that appear in its earliest extant texts.

The only other Old Iranian language found in extant texts is the Old Persian used by the Achaemenian kings for inscriptions in cuneiform writing (6th 4th century bce).

It is medieval Spanish drama's only extant text.

His History of the Greco-Persian Wars is the longest extant text in ancient Greek.

It also contains a long passage, the Patria Kōnstantinoupoleōs, on the origins of the city of Constantinople, which is the sole extant text of the original Historia.

There is a difficulty in deciding how fully the extant text of The Jew of Malta represents Marlowe's original play, for it was not published until 1633.

The earliest extant text is Ein kurtzweilig Lesen von Dyl Vlenspiegel (Antwerp, 1515; "An Amusing Book About Till Eulenspiegel"); the sole surviving copy is in the British Library, London.