Inscription Collection (page 10)

Ring with Inscription, Jewelery, Tunisia, c3rd-4th Century. Located in the Bardo Museum, Tunis

Antique Female Razor, c3rd -4th Century
Antique Female Razor, c3rd-4th Century. Located in the Bardo Museum, Tunis

Rings with Inscription, Jewelery, Tunisia, c3rd-4th Century
Rings with Inscription, Jewelry, Tunisia, c3rd-4th Century. Located in the Bardo Museum, Tunis

Rings, Jewellery, Tunisia, c3rd-4th Century
Rings, Jewellery, Tunisia, 3rd-4th Century. Located in the Bardo Museum, Tunis

Gallo-Roman stone tablet. Artist: R Guillemot
Gallo-Roman stone tablet

Queen Hatshepsut obelisk, Temple of Amun, Karnak, Luxor, Egypt, 20th Century. Queen Hatshepsut reigned together with Tuthmosis III between 1479 and 1458 BC

Abbess Jeronima de la Fuente, 1620. Artist: Diego Velazquez
Abbess Jeronima de la Fuente, 1620. The elderly nuns gaze is keen and slightly melancholic, as if prepared for any sacrifice. She holds a large crucifix in her right hand and a book in her left hand

Medallion of Alfonso V Aragon, King of Naples and Sicily, 15th century. Artist: Pisanello
Medallion of Alfonso V Aragon, King of Naples and Sicily, 15th century. The inscription reads Venator intrepidus (The intrepid hunter)

Chinese Bronze Cosmic Mirror, 2nd-3rd century. Taoist Symbolism; Centre shows 4 animals of Direction, then 12 Calendric animals of the Zodiac, then 28 Constellations and a Taoist inscription

Taoist Symbol in arrow shape, with trigrams of the I-Ching, Han Dynasty, 206 BC-220. The PI (heaven) and Tsung (Earth) with trigrams from the Book of Changes

Cyrene crowned by Libya, c120-140. Marble inscribed relief of the nymph Cyrene, overpowering a lion, and being crowned by Libya. At British Museum

Detail of early Christian funerary inscription from the Catacombs of Rome, c3rd century. The Catacombs of Rome are ancient underground burial chambers under Rome, most famous for Christian burials

Six Kashian Persian Tiles with Inscription from Shahnameh, 13th century. Inscriptions from Persian poetry including the Shahnameh

Cunieform Inscription from Nimbrud in classical Neo-Assyrian script, 879 BC. Made during Reign of Ashurbanipal II, 879 BC. Ashur-nasir-pal II was king of Assyria from 883 to 859 BC. British Museum

The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III, c858 BC-824 BC. A black limestone Assyrian sculpture with many scenes in bas-relief and inscriptions

Roman Inscription on Tombstone, c2nd-5th century. Funeral stele with inscription

Roman Lead Water-Pipe with inscription, c2nd century. Emperor Antominus and Commodia. Rome, Terme Museum

Viking Runestone from Uppland, Sweden, c8th-mid-11th century. Inscribed Estrid had these stones erected in memory of Osten, her husband who went to Jerusalem and died in Greece

Runic inscription on Anglo-Saxon Silver-Gift Mount, c7th century

Shaft of Cross at Walton, near Lancaster, England, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Shaft of Cross at Walton, near Lancaster, England, 20th century. Sfaft of an 11th Century Anglo-Danish style cross with scenes from the Sigurd Cycle, a Resurrection scene and ornament

Coptic Pilgrim Flask, 4th-5th century
Ccoptic pilgrim flask inscribed St Thecla, from the Louvres collection, 4th-5th century

Kilnasaggart cross, 8th century
Kilnasaggart cross, an inscribed pillar. This is the oldest datable Christian monument in Ireland. One one side it bears ten crosses, each inscribed in a circle in relief

Hand inscribed on stone, Bronze Age
Hand inscribed on stone. The arm is associated with divine power, and may be the symbol of the one-handed god, an Indo-European deity. Now at the National Museum in Denmark, Bronze Age

Hittite Hieroglyphs from an inscription on a monument, 15th century BC
Hittite Hieroglyphs, a very ancient script already in use by 1500 BC. This example was a inscription on a monument, from the British Museums collection

Map of the World, probably from Sippar, southern Iraq, Babylonian, c700-c500 BC. This tablet contains both a cuneiform inscription and a unique map of the Mesopotamian world

Limestone stela carved withSouth Arabian inscription in Sabaean, 2nd century BC
Limestone stela carved with three lines of South Arabian inscription in Sabaean; for the building by Wahab athat son of Alfaqum and his sons of an aqueduct to irrigate their palm grove

Clay model of a sheeps liver, Old Babylonian, c1900-1600 BC. Probably from Sippar, southern Iraq
Clay model of a sheeps liver, Old Babylonian, about 1900-1600 BC. Probably from Sippar, southern Iraq. The Babylonians believed that the world was controlled by gods

Phoenician inscription, fragment of a marble pedestal, 4th century BC
Two lines of a Phoenician inscription from a fragment of a marble pedestal, 400 BC - 375 BC. The text commemorates the dedication of gold plating to the god Reshef-Mikal by Milkyaton

Phoenican inscription with the names of people working on a mausoleum
Phoenican inscription with the names of stonemasons and their assistants erecting the mausoleum of Atoun, son of Palu. Originally from Thugga, Tunisia. From the British Museums collection

Mashta inscription - Hebrew tombstone, found in Aden, Asia, 8th century
Carved dark stone tombstone, Aden, Asia, 1717-1718 (Seleucid era). Hebrew inscription in square characters, gives the name of a woman called Mishta (or Mashta)

Roman vase inscribed Utere Felix, 3rd century
Roman vase inscribed Utere Felix (Happy Use) from Alesia, France, now in the Musee Alesia, 3rd century

Early Christian funerary inscription, with chi-rho crosses, from Merida Museums collection in Spain

Early Christian mosaic, 4th century
Early Christian mosaic with Christian symbols, i.e the Chi-Ro cross. The first line of the inscription reads having been renewed in peace. From Souisse Museum, 4th century

Gravestone to a priest of Saturn in Carthage, 2nd century

Viking Odin-Stone at Jurby on the Isle of Man, 10th century

Greek inscription in the Asklepion in Pergamum

Punic stela with a Phoenician inscription, 2nd century BC
Punic stela with a Phoenician inscription in a sanctuary in Carthage, 2nd century BC

Inscribed tablet of Kilamuwa, King of Sam al in Aramaic. From the Pergamon Museums collection in Berlin

Pair of bronze ritual iron age spoons
Pair of bronze ritual spoons found in an Iron Age grave at Pen Bryn in Wales. One has an inscribed cross, the other a small hole. Now from the National Museums collection of Wales in Cardiff

Detail of Egyptian hieroglyphs from a sepulchral stela from the tomb of the high official Hor-Em-Heb. The inscription contained prayers to Ra

The Rosetta Stone, Egyptian, Ptolemaic Period, 196 BC
The Rosetta Stone, showing hieroglyphs, demotic, and Greek scripts.The Rosetta Stone, showing hieroglyphs, demotic, and Greek scripts, Egyptian, Ptolemaic Period, 196 BC

Viking walking-stick, 10th century
Viking Walking-stick of maple-wood with Ringerike -style ornament, 10th century

Bronze horse-shaped weather vane from a ship, possibly from Lolland. Originally it would have been gilted

Greek vase showing Perseus killing a Gorgon, made in Thebes, from the Louvres collection

Bone Viking Trewiddle-style trial-piece
A bone Viking trial-piece found at the Viking settlement at York. It has Trewiddle style decoration, and is currently in the Yorkshire Museum, York

Roman Altar from York dedicated to mother goddesses
Roman Altar from Micklegate, York. The text reads To the African, Italian and Gallic mother goddesses, Marcus Minucius Andens, soldier of the 6th legion Victrix and Pilot of the 6th legion

Sheila-na-gig on Celtic cross-shaft, Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly, Ireland
Sheila-na-gig on Celtic cross-shaft, Clonmacnoise, Co.Offaly, Ireland

Cross-inscribed ogham stone, Dromkeare, Co. Kerry, Ireland
Cross-inscribed ogham stone, Dromkeare, Co.Kerry, Ireland

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