Sentence examples for source of inscriptions from inspiring English sources

The decorations on sarcophagi found in the tombs have proved a major source of inscriptions in the Etruscan language.

Correction: March 29, 2000, Wednesday An article last Wednesday about Yosef Bienenstock, a boyhood friend of Pope John Paul II who now lives in Israel, misidentified the biblical source of the inscription on the tombstone of Mr. Bienenstock's brother -- "And I shall raise you from your graves, my people, and I shall bring you to the land of Israel".

The major source of Linear B inscriptions are some 4,500 unbaked clay tablets found at Knossos (1400 1350 bce this date has been questioned) and at Thebes, Tiryns, Mycenae, Pylos, and Chania (1250 1200 bce).

The past of other cultures was known from external and nonepigraphic sources before the explorational and excavational discoveries of inscriptions; with the Hittites, however, the record is in one place and in toto.

As for the Aromanians, it is entirely reasonable to argue that Roman roads in the southern Balkans were lined with Roman guard posts, thus providing a source of spoken Latin in a region where Greek remained the language of inscriptions.

Samples of inscriptions are given in piece.

Hundreds of inscriptions attest to Bacchic Mysteries.

"Epigraphers were always wanting copies of inscriptions".

The language is known from a number of inscriptions.

Moreover, our knowledge of epigraphic sources is limited to only a few examples in the case of some lesser-known stamps while most of the ceramic material is still untapped due to lack of inscriptions.

Modeling involves the iterative generation and refinement of inscriptions (Latour 1990; Lehrer et al. 2000).