Inscription Collection (page 10)

Commemorative plaque to Augustus on behalf of the freeman L. Lucretius Zethus. From Via di Monte Brianzo. 1st century AD. Roman National Museum. Palazzo Massimo. Rome. Italy

Latin inscription commemorating Giovanni Nani, Consul for Corfu, 1435. Old Fortress Museum. Corfu. Ionian Islands. Greece

Pedestal inscribed. Olympia. Greece
Pedestal with inscribed. Ruins of the Sanctuary of Olympia. Greece

Roman Art. Greece. 2nd century. Bull with a votive inscripti
Roman Art. Greece. 2nd century. Marble sculpture depicting a bull with a votive inscription of Regilla, wife of Herodes Atticus, offered to Zeus. Dated between 147-150 A.D

Sheikh Lotf Allah Mosque. Dome and Mirhab. Isfahan. Iran
Islamic Art. Safavid era. Sheikh Lotf Allah Mosque. Built in 1598 during the reign of Abbas I and completed in 1602 in time of Sheikh Lotfollah

Prophet Zechariah. Relief
Zechariah. Minor prophet. Relief carved by Wiligelmo. 12th century. Facade. Detail. Modena Cathedral. Italy

Egyptian Art. Torso of a Ptolemaic King. Ptolemaic Period. 8
Egyptian Art. Torso of a Ptolemaic King, inscribed with cartouches of a late Ptolemy. Ptolemaic Period. 8030 B.C. Basalt. Egypt. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States

Cartridge with praenomen of Thutmose II. Deir el-Bahari. Egy
Cartridge with praenomen of Thutmose II. New Kingdom. Hatshepsuts Temple. Deir el-Bahari. Egypt

Montenegro. Risan. Communist Monument

Albania. Byllis ruins
Albania. Byllis. Founded by the Illirians in the 4th century B.C. Stone inscriptions near the theater

Stele. Archaeological Museum of Marathon. Greece
Stele inscribed with the rules for the worship of the God Pan (1st century B.C.). Pan Cave. Archaeological Museum of Marathon. Greece

Spain. Region of Murcia. Totana. Baroque fountain (1753)
Spain. Region of Murcia. Totana. Baroque fountain made A?a?A?a?by Juan de Uceta, Pedro Litran and Juan Moreno in 1753. Topped by the coat of arms of the city and the Cross of the Order of Santiago

Bronze plaque with an inscription from Andelos. Navarre. Spa
Bronze plaque with an inscription from Andelos. Museum of Navarre. Pamplona

Islamic Art. Spain. 14th century. Nasrid era. The Alhambra. Plastering stucco decoration that adorns the Hall of the Two Sisters with inscriptions on the Quran and verses of Ibn Zamrak

Iberian art. Inscription on lead. It comes from the Castle of La Fosca. Archaeological Museum of Girona. Catalonia. Spain

Cloister of the Cathedral of St. Vincent. 12th century. Capi
Romanesque. Spain. 12th century. Cloister of the Cathedral of St. Vincent. Capital. Roda de Isabena. Aragon

Roman Art. Marble sarcophagus with garlands. Ca. 200-225
Roman Art. Marble sarcophagus with garlands of oak leaves supported by two erotes and four Victories adorn the front and sides. Medusa heads fill the spaces above the garlands. Ca. 200-225

Plate of a temple dedicated to Minerva. Butrint Museum. Alba
Plate of a temple dedicated to Minerva, and built by Octilius Mystes. 2nd century. Butrint Museum. Albania

Relief with an inscription in hieroglyphics. Deir el-Bahari
Relief with an inscription in hieroglyphics. Solar disk with snake (cobra) with the ankh around his neck and Falcon with double crown over a cobra. Temple of Hatshepsut. 18th Dynasty. New Kingdom

Hieroglyphic. Relief depicting consonant sounds. The f (horned viper) and m (owl). Temple of Hatshepsut. Egypt

Hieroglyph on the walls of the Temple of Hatshepsut. At the top is a vulture Nekhbet, opening its protective wings.18th Dynasty. New Kingdom. Deir el-Bahari. Egypt

Temple of Hatshepsut. Door with polychrome reliefs representing the pharaoh Hatshepsut with masculine attributes. 18th Dynasty. New Kingdom. Deir el-Bahri. Egypt

Samuel Botley
SAMUEL BOTLEY Writer on stenography, which doesn t sound very glamorous but the fulsome inscription hints at Art, Love, Wit and Virtue as well... Date: 1642 - 1696

Balthasar D ayala
BALTHASAR D AYALA Flemish jurist and statesman of Mechlin. (Note that all the letters in the inscription which could be numerals are in larger case, who knows why ?) Date: 1548 - 1584

Chaucer / Tomb
GEOFFREY CHAUCER English poets tomb in Westminster Abbey. Date: 1340 - 1400

Bench Tomb - Pompeii
Pompeii: semi-circular bench tomb Date: 1910

Christopher Butkens
CHRISTOPHER BUTKENS Flemish historian and Cistercian monk Date: 1590 - 1650

Braccamonte & Guzman
GASPAR DE BRACCAMONTE Y GUZMAN Spanish ambassador to Germany Date: -

Andrea Alciati / De Brij
ANDREA ALCIATI Italian jurist and restorer of Roman Law Date: 1492 - 1550

Shelley - Grave - Rome
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822) - English poets grave in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome

Keats / Rome / Grave
JOHN KEATS English poets grave in Rome: the inscription reads Here lies One Whose Name was Writ in Water Date: 1795 - 1821

Hastings Monument
WARREN HASTINGS Monument raised by John Osborne to the Governor General of India. Date: 1732 - 1818

Heraclius of Tarento
HERACLIUS OF TARENTO Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire Date: 575 - 641

Heraclitus / Anon Eng
HERACLITUS Greek philosopher: portrait bust Date: 540 - 480 BC

John Gower / Monument
JOHN GOWER Monument in St Saviours Church to the English poet and friend of Chaucer Date: 1325 - 1408

Demosthenes / Marmor
DEMOSTHENES Greek orator and statesman Date: 384 - 322 BC

Aqueduct of Aqua Virgo
Reconstruction of the aqueduct of Aqua Virgo Date: circa 1902

Erasmus / Holbein / Gillot
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Dutch humanist Date: 1466 - 1536

Doorway of the Beguinage, Diest, Belgium
Doorway of the Beguinage, a community of lay religious women in Diest, Belgium, dating back to the 17th century. Date: circa 1910

Cross-shaped Christmas card with flowers and Latin inscription in gothic style lettering -- Gloria in excelsis Deo et in terra pax (Glory to God in the highest and peace on earth). Date: circa 1890s

Quiller-Couch memorial pillar, Fowey, Cornwall
Granite memorial pillar to Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), Cornishman, writer and scholar, at Penleath Point, Fowey, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

St Peter and St Paul Chapel dedicated to peace
St Peter and St Paul timber-built chapel -- the Latin inscription over the door mentions London and Westminster, and states that the chapel is dedicated to peace in Britain. Date: circa 1910

Inscription by Cecil Aldin, Dogs of Character
Inscription by Cecil Aldin in Dogs of Character: " To Jessie, from Mickey & Cracker in grateful memory of all the lovely dinners she has made for them Dec 11 1928" (signed) Date: 1927

Guynemer memorial, Poelcapelle, Belgium
Village square, Poelcapelle, Belgium, with the memorial to the French fighter pilot Georges Guynemer who was lost in 1917. Date: circa 1920s

Sphere cover cutting inscription on tomb of unknown warrior
Cutting the inscription on the grave of the unknown warrior in Westminster Abbey after the nave of the Abbey was closed to the public after six days of queues passing through to pay their respects

Memorial stone, Quaboag, West Brookfield, Mass, USA
Memorial stone (Indian Rock) at Quaboag Plantation, West Brookfield, Mass, USA, where a siege took place by Native American (Nipmuc) Indians against English settlers. Date: circa 1907

Scots American War Memorial, Edinburgh, Scotland
Scots (Scottish) American War Memorial, Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland, erected in 1927. At the centre is a kilted infrantyman looking towards Castle Rock

Inscription Rock
Insscription left by R. H. Orton, Captain in 1st Us Cavalry, 1866 Adjutant General of California after the Civil War. Inscription Rock near El Morro, New Mexico

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping