Many are inscribed in code, "To my knight in shining armor; the love of my life," reads one, signed at the bottom, "Mouse".
In "A Druid's Herbal of Sacred Tree Medicine" (Destiny Books, 2008), Ms. Hopman lays out the sacred properties of all the trees that make up the ogham, an inscribed and coded alphabet of the ancient Celts.
Will send you an inscribed copy.
A week later an inscribed copy of "RN," Richard Nixon's memoirs, arrived.
Obama said that Gates had sent him an inscribed copy, and I asked what it said.
This works because any "inscribed" 90 degree angle bisects the inscribing circle.
The Uruk Vase, with its representation of the rite of the sacred marriage, the Naram-Sin stela (inscribed commemorative pillar), the Ur-Nammu stela, and the stela with the Code of Hammurabi (Babylonian king, 18th century bce), which shows at its top the royal lawgiver before the sun god Shamash, the divine guardian of justice, are important works of art that may be singled out.
"For the first time in the history of humanity, an animal was bidding farewell, in the literal sense, to a few human beings, as if he owed them friendship and respect, an idea unconfirmed by the moral precepts in our codes of conduct, but which can perhaps be found inscribed in letters of gold in the fundamental laws of the elephantine race".
Also, an inscribed cowgirl statue.
