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
The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum
Inscription on the pedestal of the statue of Michel Ney from Paris
Tamil written on the Brihadisvara Temple, Thanjavur
Trilingual inscription of Xerxes I at Van Fortress in Turkey
Arabesque epigraphy with various Maghrebi Arabic scripts in the Myrtle Court of the Alhambra
Jiroft culture inscriptions
The high medieval Prüfening dedicatory inscription, composed in Latin and stamped in Roman square capitals
Ostrakon of Megacles, son of Hippocrates (inscription: ΜΕΓΑΚΛΕΣ ΗΙΠΠΟΚΡΑΤΟΣ), 487 BC, on display in the Ancient Agora Museum in Athens, housed in the Stoa of Attalus
Inscription on a Roman mosaic from excavations in the Appian Way, Rome. The Greek motto gnōthi sauton ("know thyself", nosce te ipsum) combines with the image to convey the warning: remember death.
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