He is remembered chiefly for his compilation of population registers in 1376, which inscribed the names of 300,000 able-bodied men available for military conscription.
Last year, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, which inscribed Machu Picchu on its World Heritage List in 1983, issued a report opposing the cable car.
Manila was then invaded by the indianized empire of Majapahit as referenced in the epic eulogy poem Nagarakretagama which inscribed its conquest by Maharaja Hayam Wuruk.
After the stoneyard closed, Mr. Teitelbaum established Stoneworks Gallery, which produces inscribed stones, fountains, benches and patios in Closter, N.J.
It evokes Duchamp's claim that he had given up art to become a "respirator," because, as he said, "each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere".
It is now to go on display at the National Trust property The Vyne in Hampshire where the ring, which is inscribed in Latin and inset with an image of the goddess Venus, lay forgotten in the library for many years.
This paradox was beautifully captured in the title of his autobiography — Not Entitled – of which my inscribed copy is a treasured possession and which opens with a line from Coriolanus: "He was a kind of nothing, titleless".
His skull is now kept at the Warren Anatomical Museum at Harvard Medical School, alongside the tamping iron that penetrated it, which is inscribed as follows: This is the bar that was shot through the head of Mr Phinehas [sic] P. Gage at Cavendish, Vermont, Sept. 14 [sic], 1848.
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.
In another section of the exhibition, an arrangement of gardening tools is dominated by a fierce guillotine blade, on which are inscribed Dido's words from the Aeneid: "Quin morere ut merita es ferroque averte dolorem" ("Die as you deserve, with steel end your pain").
The sequence for viewing them was determined by the flow of an inscribed text, which was punctuated with tiny paintings.
