Inscription
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Inscriptions are words or letters written, engraved, painted, or otherwise traced on a surface and can appear in contexts both small and monumental. Coin texts and monumental carvings on buildings are both included by historians as types of inscriptions.
Types of inscription
- Abecedarium
- Chronogram
- Epitaph on a headstone
- Epigraph
- Ex libris
- Memento mori
- Monumental inscription
- Rune stone
Notable inscriptions
- Rosetta Stone
- Behistun Inscription
- Laguna Copperplate Inscription
- Shugborough House inscription
- Inscription of Abercius
- Pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions
- Orkhon inscriptions
- Forum inscription
- Duenos inscription
The Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum is an example of an attempt by scholars to publish an organized collection of the known inscriptions from a particular language.
