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Why is this Latin text black but the Latin numerals are red?
The present day structure (Marian column (Prague)) is intended to be a very precise reconstruction of the original one built in 1650 that was torn down in 1918, when the original inscription was ...
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Which is the earliest surviving inscription of "SPQR"?
Whether or not there are any surviving SPQR initials inscriptions from the time of the Roman Republic is unclear. For inscriptions, the earliest use of these initials seems to have been on coins from ...
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What is the oldest inscription of Yahweh found?
This is only answerable with a certain amount of discussion. To illustrate the problem bluntly: you expect a date well before the exile, and "Yahweh" will be found absolutely nowhere there or then. ...
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What language is the inscription in Masaccio's Holy Trinity
The inscription is in Italian or, perhaps more accurately, in the Tuscan dialect that became the basis of modern Italian. The inscription is written in an abbreviated form, which was usual in ...
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What are the dimensions of this pomerium marker?
This is not "the" or "a" pomerium, merely a stone marking it (Material: stone — cippus, part of pomerium) and it is found at Epigraphische Text-Datenbank: Detailansicht
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What did Ostian script look like?
There is no such thing as "Ostian script". Ostia is known for having been the source of a relatively large number of well-preserved Latin inscriptions (one is shown below). These inscriptions show the ...
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What did Ostian script look like?
Ostia was a Roman port, possibly the first of their colonies. As such, the script should have been based on the Latin alphabet, which itself appears to have been derived from the Etruscan script.
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