Sentences with phrase «inscribed stone»

Known for her subversive work with language, Holzer has created a series of inscribed stone benches placed throughout the museum campus and is creating a large - scale projection for the side of Building 6 this summer.

In the history of ancient Bali, Sanur Beach is also famous and still there is an inscribed stone monument that is inscription of Kesari Warmadewa King who occupy his palace at Singhadwala at 917, which is now located in Blanjong, southern part of Sanur Beach.

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Entries on the digital record include dozens of attributes for each diamond, including the color, carat, and certificate number, which can be inscribed by laser on the crown or girdle of the stone.

Each family tomb only had so much room, and so when a body had decomposed, the bones would be put into a stone box called an Ossuary, and the names of the people would often get inscribed on to the box so that descendants would know whose bones were inside the box.

The old covenant was inscribed on stone tablets and issued to Moses in an ambiance of glory for transmission to the people of Israel.

The Jewish scriptures tell how Moses communed with God on the top of Mount Sinai, and returned with the tablets of stone on which were inscribed the Ten Commandments, which have served for more than three thou sand years as the basic moral code of the Judeo - Christian civilization.

He said: «As we see you, as we see this area with its constant memories of what has happened, we seek to share with you in a way that reminds you that you are not alone, that the pain you suffer is not considered passing but profound, and that the grief for the lost is something that will forever be inscribed by our memories in these very stones, stones that over so many centuries have seen so much violence, but have also seen the renewal of hope and the overcoming of evil.

Were the Ten Commandments not inscribed into a stone by God's hot finger itself?

Translating golden plates is cuckoo but saying Moses inscribed the Ten Commandments onto stone tablets is perfectly rational?

God, who has an eye on the poor, and perhaps specially on us 20th century theologians, in his infinite wisdom inscribed the Decalogue on tablets of stone (Deut.

Number 7 of 10 laws inscribed on the Georgia Guide Stone (American - Stonehenge) states: «Avoid petty laws and useless officials.»

Moses descends the mountain carrying the two stone tablets inscribed with the Decalogue, presumably («the writing was the writing of God,» v. 16); sees what has occurred (Joshua suddenly appears again, cf. 24:13); and in fury breaks the tablets, symbolizing the covenant which Israel has in the same way just shattered.

Although dedicated at the ground zero site in 2004, the stone was quietly removed in 2006 and returned to the company where it was inscribed.

SAN ANTONIO — The world's earliest alphabet, inscribed on stone slabs at several Egyptian sites, was an early form of Hebrew, a controversial new analysis concludes.

Yet epigraphists have found relatively few inscribed tombs for Roman infants in Italy: Just 1.3 percent of all funerary stones mark such burials.

This is applicable to any search for a relationship, but in the case of Russian women you must follow this rule as if it was inscribed on stone tablets handed down from Heaven.

On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Italy, and Siberia, the Fargos find themselves embroiled with black - market fossils, an ancient Tibetan kingdom, a lost landmass in the North Sea, Stone Age ostrich egg shards inscribed in a cryptic language, a pair of battles separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years... and a skeleton that could just turn the history of human evolution on its head.

The words «Arrête, c’est ici l'empire de la Mort» («Stop, this is the empire of the dead») were inscribed in the stone above.

The «Stone Town of Zanzibar» was inscribed as World Heritage Site in 2000.

These massive stone monoliths are inscribed with ancient writings recording Mayan history.

On September 25, 2017, the world learned that two stone panels inscribed with ancient Maya hieroglyphs have been deciphered.

Definition of talisman ~ noun (plural talismans) an object, typically an inscribed ring or stone, that is thought to have magic powers and to bring good luck

Coming upon a wall seemingly inscribed with pixelated objects and enemies, I found a pipe set in the stone that attached to one of the 8 - bit pipes.

She will inscribe words like remember, dream, and wish on the stones, which have been honed and shaped by water over time.

If that were not enough, one has to pass through three doors, and walk across a stone slab inscribed, «Art Before People.»

Whether stones, grasses or the needles of a Hemlock tree, all those objects can become tools that symbolically inscribe certain peculiarities of the different landscapes.

She will inscribe the words like remember, dream, and wish on the stones, which have been honed and shaped by water over time.

Ian Hamilton Finlay «L'IDYLLE DES CERISES», 1986 - 2010 lead cherry basket and stone plinth inscribed 2010 height: 15 3/4 inches (40 cm) diameter including handles: 21 1/4 inches (54 cm) stone: 11 7/8 x 11 7/8 x 3 inches (30 x 30 x 7.5 cm) IHF - 4

He was fascinated by the poetic expression of philosophical ideas, often inscribing texts in stone to be placed in garden settings.

T03609 Carving No. 2 1981 White Arni marble and Grey Imperial marble 24 1/2 × 24 × 24 (622 × 609 × 609) Not inscribed Purchased from Waddington Galleries (Grant - in - Aid) 1983 Exh: Barry Flanagan, Sculptures in Bronze 1980 — 81, Waddington Galleries, December 1981 (not in catalogue); Barry Flanagan Stone and Bronze Sculptures, British Pavilion, XL Biennale, Venice, June — September 1982, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, October — December 1982, Whitechapel Art Gallery, January — February 1983 (72, repr; also repr.

Some works» physical presence, color and tactility appear ominous such as John Isaacs» The Cyclical Development of Stasis which presents itself as an oily black stone that may or may not be recognized as its actual source of the iconic seat of The Thinker and Sterling Ruby's massive white minimalist - inspired Formica Inscribed Monolith smudged with dirt and scrawled with gang graffiti.

In the mid-1980s, a period during which she produced a series of introspective and mournful works including Under a Rock (1986) and Laments (1989), Holzer began inscribing her texts on stone benches, sarcophagi, and floor tiles.

On the reverse side, «Bruce Nauman» has been inscribed into the stone using a machine, accompanied by the stone - maker's mark «Gemini GEL» and a symbol comprising the letter U within a small circle.

The 17 - foot - tall stone slab is inscribed with a message that, by virtue of the medium, could outlast the civilization around it.

Seven stones inscribed with drawings by James Surls and poems by Robert Creeley were installed in the garden.

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Past the entrance to the Quarantomb is a stone pillar inscribed with a poem, mentioning Sages.