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

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  The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum

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

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  Tamil written on the Brihadisvara Temple, Thanjavur

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  Trilingual inscription of Xerxes I at Van Fortress in Turkey

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

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  Jiroft culture inscriptions

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

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  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

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  An inscription using cipher runes, the Elder Futhark, and the Younger Futhark, on the 9th-century Rök runestone in Sweden