Sentences with phrase «inscriptions describing»

They were originally placed inside burial mounds and are carved both inside and out with inscriptions describing the life of the deceased; the compositions of Marden's paintings come directly from four Chinese characters found in these carved inscriptions.

Prehistoric civilizations left their marks here in the form of books, but also different inscriptions describing various events from the past.

Another funerary inscription describes in poignant detail a father's grief.

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

One inscription describes a baby whose brief life consisted of just «nine sighs,» as if the parents had tenderly counted each breath their newborn had taken.

The inscription describes the devastating effects of radiation.

Inscription describing subject in pencil on the verso u.c., stamped «PHOTO More...

Inscription describing subject in pencil on the verso u.c., stamped «PHOTO BY / MARGARET BOURKE - WHITE» in red ink on the verso at center, Life Picture Service reproduction permission stamp in black ink on the verso l.l. Gelatin silver print, image / sheet size 9 7/8 x 13 1/8 in.

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In the Inferno we see this insistence on God's justness from the opening lines describing Hell proper, the inscription over the gate of Hell (III, 4): «Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore» (Justice moved my maker on high).

«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.

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

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.

Sacks's survey includes forays into topics ranging from the history of typesetting to the twisty tale of c, k, and q. (The Phoenicians pronounced the precursors of k and q in slightly different ways, while the Etruscans replaced the Greek gamma - which stood for a sound they did not use - with the crescent - shaped c.) He carefully delves into the archaeological evidence for the alphabet's origins, describing the oldest known alphabetic inscriptions, dating to about 1800 B.C., which were recently identified among rock carvings at Wadi el - Hol in central Egypt.

A «catalogue raisonné» is a systematic and comprehensive scholarly reference text in which each work known to have been executed by a particular artist is illustrated, thoroughly documented and described, giving information such as title, alternative titles, date, medium, size, inscriptions, provenance, exhibition history, and publication history, and in which each work is assigned a permanent reference number.