The place was definitely an ancient port, Dr. Peacock said, but it was not until an inscribed piece of pottery was recently uncovered that he could be sure "beyond reasonable doubt" that this was indeed Myos Hormos.
Fragments of such lists are preserved on the Palermo Stone, an inscribed piece of basalt (at the Regional Museum of Archaeology in Palermo, Italy), and related pieces in the Cairo Museum and University College London; these are probably all parts of a single copy of an original document of the 5th dynasty.
This is perhaps best understood as meaning that he took an inscribed piece of metal from the dedicated object, perhaps a cauldron (see Wilamowitz 1962, II 94).
"Windhorse," whose name is derived from the prayer-inscribed pieces of paper that Tibetans traditionally throw from high mountains in religious homage, was named best American independent film at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in California in March.
There is also a tablet on which is inscribed part of the Gilgamesh epic, often considered the world's first piece of literature, and another with two songs written by King Sargon's sister that are the earliest works known to be written by a woman.
Found in debris: fragment inscribed limestone, part of limestone relief.
The salver was inscribed with a dedication, and each piece bore an inscribed caricature of Rush at the oars of an outrigger skiff.
However, in a letter sent on 20 November 1879 to Samuel Birch, the Keeper of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum, he wrote, "The Cylinder of Cyrus was found at Omran [Tell Amran-ibn-Ali] with about six hundred pieces of inscribed terracottas before I left Baghdad".
Pit A [= G 5540 Y] has a chamber roofed with 3 re-used inscribed stones, a lintel in 2 pieces and several fragments of a woman Nub-ankh [Nebuankh, 33-3-22], a one-piece lintel of Ptah-mery [Merptah, 33-3-21] and his wife Merit-ytes [Meretites].
The floors were littered with thousands of pieces of pottery, statue fragments, jewelry and beads, pieces of wooden furniture, stone sarcophagus fragments, inscribed stone vessels, bones from offerings of cooked meat and pieces of mummified human bodies.
Three wall pieces resemble squares of inscribed concrete, but are actually foam covered with plaster and paint that mimics rock.
