Inscription

Inscriptions are words or letters written, engraved, painted, or otherwise traced on a surface and can appear in contexts both small and monumental. Coin texts and monumental carvings on buildings are both included by historians as types of inscriptions.

Related Topics:
Written - Engraved - Painted - Coin - Monument - Carving

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The study of inscriptions is epigraphy.

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