Sentences with phrase «inscriptions at»

For example, many of the inscriptions at Nimrud have yet to be properly documented, he says.

Stone inscriptions at La Corona dating to 314, about two centuries before Kaanul rule, describe the arrival of specific Maya gods.

After a brief pause, Diogenes wonders aloud, «Have you ever heard of the inscription at Delphi: «Know thyself»?»

Based on similarity to images in Olmec iconography, the researchers dated the block's inscription at 1000 to 800 B.C.

In the shadow of the attacks, the inscription at her base no longer seems to address immigrants but rather speaks directly to New Yorkers who now find themselves disenfranchised and suffocating with disease: «Give me your tired, your poor / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.»

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The term Iran derives directly from Middle Persian Ērān, first attested in a third - century inscription at Rustam Relief, with the accompanying Parthian

Of the inscription at the 9/11 Memorial Museum, Helen Morales, a classicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, told the Times,» If we take into account its original context, the quotation is more applicable to the aggressors in the 9/11 tragedy than those honored by the memorial... So my first reaction is that the quotation is shockingly inappropriate for the U.S. victims of the 9/11 attack.

Below, you can see the controller which has been finished with an all - black theme and an inscription at the center.

That Marlborough exhibition is now commemorated on a stone inscription at the entrance to the Leopold Museum in Vienna.

An inscription at the bottom of the painting reads in Flemish, «Because the world is perfidious / I am going into mourning.»

The word subscribe originally referred in Latin to writing beneath, as with an inscription at the base of a statue, or at the end of a letter, or in the adding of one's name at the bottom of a text or concept (as in subscribing to an idea).

Not exact matches

In the end, though, it was a week spent sampling the car — in top - level «Inscription» trim, tipping the cost scales at almost $ 67,000 — in its natural environment, suburban New Jersey, that made it a unanimous decision.

I left a copy at my neighbor's doorstep with an inscription: «Do great work.

But weve still got plenty, and you can get an autograph / inscription on single copies at no extra charge.

The material that was burned at Bagram Airfield was removed from the library of a detainee center «because of extremist inscriptions and an appearance that these documents were being used to facilitate extremist communications,» a military official said Tuesday.

19th century, archaeological finds (e.g. earth and timber fortifications and towns, the use of a plaster - like cement, ancient roads, metal points and implements, copper breastplates, head - plates, textiles, pearls, native North American inscriptions, North American elephant remains etc.) is not interpreted by mainstream academia as proving the historicity or divinity of the Book of Mormon.This evidence is viewed by mainstream scholars as a work of fiction that parallels others within the 19th century «Mound - builder» genre that were pervasive at the time.

Inscriptions and piles of wine amphorae give us a vivid picture of feasting at tombs of the dead, a practice Augustine tried in vain to discourage.

In fact, an inscription that was found at Caesarea Maritima, ludaea there is an inscription dedicated to Pilate which reads, «praefectus iudaeae» which means «prefect of Judea».

There is also a stone inscription (now in Lahore museum) containing his name and dates which tell us that he was an Indo - Parthian prince in the north western part of India (from AD 19 - 45) at the time when St. Thomas is supposed to have come there.

From my undergraduate days at Cornel University one of my deepest impressions is the inscription over the entrance to the main hall of the College of Arts and Sciences, «Above all nations is humanity» To this conviction which an increasing number of thoughtful people now accept must be added another, «Above all humanity is God.»

At the end of my Sunday Mass I came into the body of the church to make my thanksgiving, and as I knelt in the pew I noticed that the pulpit from which I had preached had on its front a banner with the inscription «God is other people.»

Those who shudder at inscriptions on monuments or passages in history books which refer simply to «the Great War» or «the World War» — written as though what we call World War I would indeed prove to be «the war to end war» — will feel saddened to read her portentous observation that «we have no guarantee that it will not recur.»

A professor of archaeology at UNC Charlotte told The Post, «There is, of course, no inscription stating it happened here, but everything — archaeological, historical and gospel accounts — all falls into place and makes sense»...

He knows that an individual voice will be raised in resistance, but he knows that he is stronger, he knows that for an instant one still can cause men to seem serious, but he knows also that privately they long to laugh with him; he knows that for an instant one can still cause a woman to hold a fan before her eyes when he talks, but he knows that she is laughing behind the fan, that the fan is not absolutely impervious to vision, he knows that one can write on it an invisible inscription, he knows that when a woman strikes at him with her fan it is because she has understood him, he knows without the least danger of deception how laughter sneaks in, and how when once it has taken up its lodging it lies in ambush and waits.

At first scholars had high hopes that inscriptions and other written documents from ancient times («epigraphical» sources) would confirm the biblical account and add further information.

In 1993 - 94, for example, archaeologists excavating at Tell Dan in modern Israel discovered two fragments of an inscription that refers to «the house of David.»

At times the elegiac element of Civil War memorials becomes explicit, as in the inscription on the Georgia monument raised at Winchester, VA, in 1884, during the War's twentieth anniversary — the same year in which the Lee statue in New Orleans was raiseAt times the elegiac element of Civil War memorials becomes explicit, as in the inscription on the Georgia monument raised at Winchester, VA, in 1884, during the War's twentieth anniversary — the same year in which the Lee statue in New Orleans was raiseat Winchester, VA, in 1884, during the War's twentieth anniversary — the same year in which the Lee statue in New Orleans was raised.

Workers, beginning at opposite ends, met in the middle; and someone, at the point of meeting, placed this inscription in the wall of the tunnel, now excavated:

The Babylonians did not, like the Egyptians, have at hand durable material in the form of stone upon which to carve their inscriptions.

To my knowledge there was no historical proof of Pilate until an inscription of his name was found at Cesearea.

The inscription on a tablet found at Tel Dan, which dates to about 840 B.C.E., clearly mentions a «House of David.»

This inscription, carved over the entrance of Goldwin Smith Hall of Humanities at Cornell University, impressed me deeply as a student and has remained with me.

Discovery of the inscription in the ruins of Tel Dan, in northern Israel, was reported last summer by Dr. Avraham Biran, an archaeologist at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Inst.itute of Religion in Jerusalem.

In the Warta district members of the hierarchy were brutally beaten, the clergy were decimated in a frightful manner, seminars, numerous establishments of religious orders and all Catholic schools and associations were abolished, ecclesiastical property was expropriated, sisters were driven - from their convents, churches in large part were closed, wayside crosses and shrines were destroyed, Polish inscriptions on gravestones were effaced and loyalty to religion was made extremely difficult and was ridiculed in every conceivable manner and more than three million Polish Catholics were left completely outside the pale of the law and were at the mercy of the despotic whims of the National Socialists.

On the wall was a framed Army Reservist flag with a Latin inscription that several players found themselves wondering at its translation.

Despite the imposing surroundings and the often extensive inscriptions, being buried at the abbey doesn't give any sense of a prime minister's roots.

The student rallied round at the gate of the State University, with various inscriptions on their placards that read: «He who works deserved to be paid,» «Workers are dying of hunger,» and «NANS say no to taxation of school pupils in Ekiti» among others.

Suspect then led the victim to the premises of the Judicial Service Training School at Cantonments where the said vehicles with registration numbers GT4417 - 09, GR1313 V, GR1305 V, GR1323 V, GR1301 V and GE736 W had been parked with inscription «dully approved for auction.»

Every year at her birthday party, Martha's friends and supporters buy her a cake with the inscription, «Martha, the Real District Leader.»

«Going to sit quietly at the premises of the Electoral Commission and holding placards with inscription that Ghanaians demand a new voters» register, there is no way any person should ever think this activity pose security threat to the Electoral Commission.»

Carrying placards with various inscriptions, the protesters, whose houses were demolished at Fakunle, Olaiya, MDS, Old Garage, Ayetoro and Baba Onisekere area, pleaded passionately with speaker to persuade Governor Aregbesola to pay them.

She soon declared cyberwar against Queens City Councilman Rory Lancman, who objected to her tweet lionizing a small Palestinian boy pictured clutching rocks to lob at Israeli soldiers, to which she added the offensive inscription, «The definition of courage.»

«The Inscription in the Window» describes Briber's relationship with her home at 23 Washington Ave. in Schenectady, almost directly across from the Schenectady County Historical Society's headquarters.

Reese - Taylor combed through hundreds of published inscriptions and royal portraits housed at university libraries in Canada and the U.S., looking for imagery of other warrior queens from the Maya lowlands around Naachtun.

Then Reese - Taylor found the epigraphic, or inscription, work of Maya scholar Linda Schele, which revealed that at the height of the rainy season in 682, a Maya princess from Dos Pilas, in what is now west - central Guatemala, arrived in the shattered city of Naranjo, just west of the Belize - Guatemala border.

«This would also account for the Irish personal name at the end of the inscription,» he says.

At a conference in Glasgow he described how he had written a computer program to substitute these known alphabets for the letters in the inscription in all 1440 possible combinations.

Scientists have debated whether the first significant phase of the compilation of biblical texts happened before or after the fall of the first Temple, in 586 B.C. To get at the potential answers to that question, a group of researchers in Israel analyzed mundane inscriptions about the needs of daily life on 16 ceramic shards written about 600 B.C. from an ancient military fortress in Arad, at the northern edge of the Negev desert.

In Nuceria, near present - day Naples, at least two inscriptions describe Novelli Primigenia, who lived and worked in the «Venus Quarter.»