inscriptional
- adjective
- /ɪnˈskrɪpʃənl/
- Specialized
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inscripcional
- Researchers studied the inscriptional markings on the stone tablets to decipher their meaning.
- inscriptional sources
Examples
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My understanding of the Sanskrit sources is indebted to Harunaga Isaacson, who patiently worked with me on the inscriptional material.
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It corresponds to an equally rare form of the name in Greek, namely Yoses or Yose (?????/????), that occurs only five times in all our sources, literary and inscriptional.
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Inscriptional sources also indicate that Natesha held a specific significance for the Mattamayuras.
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Because of geographic proximity to Byzantium, portable objects from the Mediterranean region constitute the most likely sources for possible inscriptional models.
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Its makers and users are said to have possessed only a faint understanding of the iconographic and inscriptional motifs they employed.
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Inscriptional sources frequently record the construction of mathas and the patronage of the gurus who headed them.
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The Aramaic form of the nickname Yoseh (????), short for Yehosef/Joseph, is rare in the 2nd Temple period, only found here on an ossuary and two other inscriptional examples.
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Although the exact origins of the Mattamayuras have been a subject of debate, inscriptional records make it clear that they attracted the attention of kings residing in the western part of central India as early as the ninth century CE, and that they had become a major transregional religious movement by the tenth century.
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These vegetal forms also parallel the floriated elements in the pseudo-Arabic motifs, creating a visual link between the figural and inscriptional sections of the vessel's program.
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Yet an analysis of inscriptional style yields a close connection with Islamic epigraphic models of the late tenth to the eleventh century, arguing for reconsideration of the mid-tenth-century date commonly ascribed to the bowl.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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About the study of writing carved on stone or metal, often on monuments
Having words written or carved on a surface
Relating to writing carved on stone, for example on a monument or building
Written or carved on a surface like a stone
Cut into a surface to form a design or letters
Relating to writing cut into stone, often on monuments or walls
Surface Forms
Morphology
inscriptional = inscription (semi-transparent) = in + script + ion + al
The adjective is regularly formed from the noun 'inscription' with '-al' and means 'relating to inscriptions'.
Etymology
Inscriptional comes from the Latin parts in- meaning 'on' and scribere meaning 'to write', the same root you see in scribe and script. So inscriptional describes writing 'on' a surface, like words carved into stone or metal.