Inscription Collection (page 9)

Capitals from the temple near the Roman Baths, Nimes. Creator: French School (18th century)
Capitals from the temple near the Roman Baths, Nimes, from Antiquites de la France: Vol I, Monuments de Nimes (engraving)

Entablature, capital and inscription from the Temple of Jupiter Tonans (The Thunderer), pub
Entablature, capital and inscription from the Temple of Jupiter Tonans (The Thunderer), from Les Edifices Antiques de Rome, published 1682 (engraving)

William Hogarths tomb, c1793. Creator: Unknown
William Hogarths tomb, c1793. Wm. Hogarths Tomb in Chiswick Churchyard Middx. The tomb of British painter William Hogarth (1697-1764) in St Nicholass churchyard, Chiswick, (west London)

Tomb of Valerius Amandinus (A Roman General), 1908. From Early London - Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman, by Sir Walter Besant. [Adam & Charles Black, London, 1908]

Engraving of a tree in the work Arbor Scientiae (Science Tree) copy printed in Barcelona in 1505 by Pere Posa, encyclopaedia written between 1295 and 1296 by the philosopher, theologian

Cover of the Latin edition printed by Jean Petit in Paris in 1505, Libre d Amic e d Amat (Song of the Friend and the Beloved)

Venus, colored engraving from the book Le Theatre du monde or Nouvel Atlas, 1645, created, printed and published in Amsterdam by William and Jean Bleau

Visigothic inscription, from the Germo Basilica in Espiel (Cordoba)

Copy of an inscription found in the Tower of London, 1777

Copy of an inscription from the wall of Beauchamp Tower, Tower of London, 1797. Artist
Copy of an inscription from the wall of Beauchamp Tower, Tower of London, 1797. The inscription consists of a central circular roundel, containing a coat of arms

Inscription in Latin by Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, 1587 (1803). Copied from the wall of the Beauchamp Tower, Tower of London

Copy of the inscription from the first stone of the City of London School, 1835. Artist
Copy of the inscription from the first stone of the City of London School, 1835

Boundary stone between the City of London and the borough of Southwark, London, c1820. Erected in 1818 during the mayoralty of Christopher Smith

Monument in St Jamess Church, Piccadilly, London, c1825. View of a monument by Edward Hawke Locker in memory of Benjamin Stillingfleet, botanist and author

Sailors in Westminster Abbey, 1804. Two seamen, reading the inscription on a monument, misinterpret The cloud-capt towers as The Cloud, Capt Towers, to their own mystification

Monument to Mary Barton in the Church of St Mary, Paddington, London, c1800

View of the pump near Clerks Well in Ray Street, Finsbury, London, 1822. Artist
View of the pump near Clerks Well in Ray Street, Finsbury, London, 1822. Above the pump is a descriptive iron tablet accompanied by a plan of the site; in the upper left a collection of caged birds

Copy of the inscription on the foundation stone of the new Royal Exchange, London, 1842

Stone date marks reading 1497, 1506 and 1514 from London Bridge, 1758. They were found during the repairs to London Bridge in 1758

Roman memorial stone erected by Solinus in memory of his wife Grata, 1875. Sketch of an artefact in the Guildhall Museum, City of London

Remains of two Roman statues and an inscription on stone, 1850. From the Guildhall Museum, City of London

Memorial to John Foxe, Church of St Giles without Cripplegate, City of London, 1800. Inscribed in latin

Monument to Anne Martha Hand, Church of St Giles without Cripplegate, City of London, 1820. The monument was the work of Thomas Banks

Monument to John Foxe, Church of St Giles without Cripplegate, City of London, 1800. Monument to Foxe (author of the Book of Martyrs ) and a gravestone from the north chancel of the church

Memorial in St Brides Church, Fleet Street, City of London, 1821. Artist: W Jeffreys
Memorial in St Brides Church, Fleet Street, City of London, 1821. Tablet in St Bride in remembrance of Robert Wells (1728-1794), his wife Mary (1728-1805) and son William Charles Wells (1757-1817)

Boundary stone between the City of London and Southwark, 1819. Artist: TA
Boundary stone between the City of London and Southwark, 1819. Inscribed boundary stone between the City of London and the borough of Southwark on Newington Causeway erected during the mayorality of

Tyberius Nero (42 BC - 37 AD), 1559
Tyberius Nero (42 BC - 37 AD) from Imperatorum romanorum omnium orientalium et occidentalium verissimae imagines ex antiquis numismatis

Cross inscribed on a column, Apollonia, Libya. The Ancient Greek city of Apollonia served as a seaport for Cyrene which was first settled by the Greeks c630 BC

Relief of cuneiform text, the Apadana, Persepolis, Iran. The capital of Achaemenid Persia, Persepolis was predominantly built during the reigns of the dynastys founder

Trilingual relief of Darius, Bisitun, Iran
Detail of trilingual relief of Darius, Bisitun, Iran. This relief is the equivalent to cuneiform of what the Rosetta Stone represents to the understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphics

Copy of an inscribed stone in Oddas Chapel, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, 2010. This small Saxon chapel dates from the 11th century

Charles MacArthurs grave, Kilmuir Graveyard, Skye, Highland, Scotland. The MacArthurs were a famous clan of pipers. Charles MacArthur (c1668-1768) was the most famous

Graveyard of Karavados Church, Kefalonia, Greece

Inscription on the base of a Plague Cross, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. Situated outside the church in Ross-on-Wye, this cross commemorates the 315 victims of an outbreak of the plague that struck

Cuneiform inscriptions on stones, ruined aqueduct, Jerwan, Iraq, 1977. Built in around 700 BC by the Assyrian King Sennacherib to supply water to his capital city, Nineveh

Charles II on Custom House, Kings Lynn, Norfolk

Arch of Titus, Rome, Italy, 1927. Artist: Eugen Poppel
Arch of Titus, Rome, Italy, 1927. The Arch of Titus was built in 82 by the Roman Emperor Domitian to commemorate the victories of his brother and predecessor Titus

Gravestone of Thomas Thetcher, Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire, early 20th century(?)
Gravestone of Thomas Thetcher, the Hampshire Grenadier, Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire, early 20th century(?). From Winchester. [L Newman, The Square, London, ]

Corean Painting, of the Great Buddhist priest P eng Yen of the T ai Yen hall, c16th century
Corean Painting - probably sixteenth century: inscribed portrait of the Great Buddhist priest P eng Yen of the T ai Yen hall, c 16th century. From The Connoisseur Volume 96, edited by Edward Wenham

The Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London, c1890. Artist: Newton & Co
The Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London, c1890. The Rosetta Stone is a basalt slab inscribed with a decree of the Pharaoh Ptolemy Epiphanes (Ptolemy V) (205-180 BC) in three languages; Greek

Facsimile of the inscription in a copy of The Pickwick Papers, 1839 (1912). Facsimile of the inscription in a copy of Charles Dickens first novel

Inscriptions from the Catacombs, Rome, 1926. From An Outline of Christianity, The Story of Our Civilisation, volume 2: Builders of the Church, edited by RG Parsons and AS Peake

A boundary stone of Babylonia, 1000 BC (1922). Set up to mark the extent of a private individuals estate, the stone is inscribed with certain texts which refer to the ownwership of the land during

Moses receives the law, late 19th or early 20th century. Moses receiving the Ten Commandments from God on Mount Sinai, as described in Exodus. Lantern slide

The Porte Saint-Denis, Paris, France, 1820. Artist: Henry Hobson
The Porte Saint-Denis, Paris, France, 1820. The Porte Saint-Denis is a triumphal arch erected in 1672 to commemorate Louis XIVs victories on the Rhine

Remarkable inscription of a Seven Year Famine on an island in the Nile, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Remarkable inscription of a Seven Year Famine on an island in the Nile, Egypt, 1905. The rocks on these islands are covered with inscriptions

Berlin Olympics, 1936. Jesse Owens name being inscribed on the monument listing gold medal winners. A print from Olympia 1936, Die Olympischen Spiele 1936, Volume II, Cigaretten-Bilderdienst

Letter from James Boswell to Edmond Malone, 13th April 1795. Artist: James Boswell
Letter from James Boswell to Edmund Malone, 13th April 1795. Letter written from Great Portland Street, with reference to the monument to Dr Johnson in St Pauls Cathedral

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