Epigraphy

Epigraphy is the study of writings, inscriptions (epigraphs) on things like rocks, clay, stone, paper, etc. It is used to study writing; often for learning about languages of the past.

Epigraphy Media

• Rosetta Stone.JPG

  The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum

• Inscription on the pedestal of the statue of Michel Ney from Paris

• Sanskrit written on the Brihadisvara Temple, Thanjavur.jpg

  Tamil written on the Brihadisvara Temple, Thanjavur

• Trilingual inscription of Xerxes, Van, 1973.JPG

  Trilingual inscription of Xerxes I at Van Fortress in Turkey

• Arabic scripts Alhambra.jpg

  Arabesque epigraphy with various Maghrebi Arabic scripts in the Myrtle Court of the Alhambra

• Jiroft culture inscriptions

• Prüfeninger Weiheinschrift. Pic 01.jpg

  The high medieval Prüfening dedicatory inscription, composed in Latin and stamped in Roman square capitals

• 41 - Stoà of Attalus Museum - Ostracism against Megakles (487 BC) - Photo by Giovanni Dall'Orto, Nov 9 2009.jpg

  Ostrakon of Megacles, son of Hippocrates (inscription: ΜΕΓΑΚΛΕΣ ΗΙΠΠΟΚΡΑΤΟΣcode: grc is deprecated ), 487 BC, on display in the Ancient Agora Museum in Athens, housed in the Stoa of Attalus

• Roman-mosaic-know-thyself.jpg

  Inscription on a Roman mosaic from excavations in the Appian Way, Rome. The Greek motto gnōthi sauton ("know thyself", nosce te ipsumcode: la is deprecated ) combines with the image to convey the warning: remember death.