dedicatory inscription

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• inscription — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ famous ▪ dedicatory, funerary, memorial, monumental ▪ Greek, Latin, etc …   Collocations dictionary

• dedicatory — adj. Dedicatory is used with these nouns: ↑inscription …   Collocations dictionary

• WRITING — (Scripts, Materials, and Inscriptions). SCRIPTS AND MATERIALS General Survey From the end of the third millennium B.C.E., the art of writing was practiced in the ancient Near East (see alphabet ). Here, the pictographic, cuneiform, and… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

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