Noun:

எழுத்துப் பொரிப்ப,

inscriptions's Usage Examples:

The sceptics had declared that the new science of Assyriology was itself a myth: that the investigators, self-deceived, had in reality only invented a language and read into the Assyrian inscriptions something utterly alien to the minds of the Assyrians themselves.

It has been argued that the runes of the Teutonic peoples have been derived from a form of the Etruscan alphabet, inscriptions in which are spread over a great part of northern Italy, but of which the most characteristic are found in the neighbourhood of Lugano, and in Tirol near Innsbruck, Botzen and Trent.

In the bilingual inscriptions, Tibetan and Chinese, set up at Lhasa in 822, and published by Bushell in 1880, we remark that the silent letters were pronounced: Tib.

A large number of the inscriptions collected by Gamurrini in the appendices to Fabretti's Corpus inscriptionum italicarum are forgeries, and the text of the rest is negligently reported.

Very interesting examples of Israelite written inscriptions on potsherds, dating from the 9th century B.

A town on the left bank of the Euphrates, at the end of a bridge of boats (zeugma); the Til-Barsip of the Assyrian inscriptions, now Birejik.

But the inscriptions are not yet deciphered, so that conclusive proof is still wanting.

The Arab inscriptions are accompanied by curious scrawls on each side, which may be imitated from words used in the Latin inscriptions of the Roman period.

Under the Empire we hear no more of it, and no traces of antiquity, beyond inscriptions, remain.

Several inscriptions ascribe both these treatises to Boetius.

In 1827 a combined expedition led by Champollion and Rosellini was despatched by the governments of France and Tuscany, and accomplished a great deal of valuable work in copying scenes and inscriptions.

James Prinsep was then devoting his rare genius to the decipherment of the early inscriptions of northern India, especially those of Asoka in the 3rd century B.

The inscriptions at Pompeii, for instance, give evidence of keenly contested elections in the and century.

Synonyms:

writing, lettering, superscription, epitaph, epigraph, written material, piece of writing,

Antonyms:

approval, disapproval,