Carved from black diorite, it is 30 inches tall and headless, and inscribed with cuneiform that says it was placed in a temple in Ur, in what is now southern Iraq, to please the god Enlil.
The installation consists of 50 turnstiles, each inscribed with sayings that begin with the words "everything" or "anything," like "Everything You've Ever Wanted," and "Anything You Have Faith In".
It is an astonishing space, rising 87 feet to the peak of the ceiling, a gingerbread forest of intricate wood trusses, some inscribed with hexagrams that look like Stars of David.
Specifically we argue that cultural artefacts such as video clips are inscribed with emotion that structures students' opportunities to engage with the scientific ideas.
In the East, carried by Buddhist pilgrims, Silk Road traders, and others, it was transformed into a game with inscribed disks that were often placed on the intersection of the lines of the board rather than within the squares.
Harbison notes that van Eyck's privately commissioned works are unusually heavily inscribed with prayer, and that the words may have served a similar function to prayer tablets, or more exactly "Prayer Wings", of the type seen in the reconstructed London Virgin and Child triptych.
I saw between 70 and 100 parchment pages lying on top of each other, inscribed with black ink that because of time had reddened slightly.
In this article we use the term 'sexualised visibility' to describe how in male dominated work settings such as engineering, women are inscribed with sexual attributes that overshadow and obscure other attributes and values.
Ethical qualms aside, the biggest problem in collecting second-hand-books-that-have-been-inscribed-with-personal-messages-from-their-previous-owner(s) is finding the buggers in the first place.
Eggjum Stone, inscribed stone that bears 200 runic characters.
