The widespread practice of inscribing texts on stone or bronze has preserved the words of bakers, minor magistrates and slaves, as well as those of imperial authority (Beard argues against more pessimistic estimates of literacy levels).
On the stela is inscribed the text of a bilingual Tibetan-Chinese peace treaty of 821 822 ce between the king of Tibet and the emperor of China.
On some of her sculptures she has inscribed a text, such as "Do you love me?" or "Do not abandon me".
Inside, there are marble benches inscribed with texts.
Their excavations in the 1970's uncovered a library with 17,000 clay tablets inscribed with texts of a large, literate society in the middle of the third millennium B.C. Subsequent research has determined that this early civilization, a collection of city-states apparently more or less under Ebla's dominance, emerged between 2600 and 2500 and collapsed between 2200 and 2000.
Thutmose III, Hatshepsut's successor, decided to reinter his grandfather in an even more magnificent tomb, KV38, which featured another yellow sarcophagus dedicated to Thutmose I and inscribed with texts which proclaimed this pharaoh's love for his deceased grandfather.
Once the words received the royal thumbs up, an anonymous and highly discreet calligrapher was finally allowed to inscribe the text in special ink onto the vellum.
"Words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space," writes Geoff Nicholson in The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism.
"In a season in which we yearn for fresh starts, in a time [during the High Holidays] when our Jewish family turns its face toward repentance, all of us who claim faith in G-d might want to inscribe this text on our hearts," Lewis told HuffPost.
Kearney [ 19] asserts that Ricoeur does not wish to deny that as soon as discourse is inscribed in a text, the author's intention ceases to coincide with the meaning of this text.
